The Witchfinder's Sister by Beth Underdown, 2017
Now this one was tight. The story of witchfinder general Matthew Hopkins is very interesting and enigmatic on it's own, and this is told from the point of view of his fictional sister.
Hopkins was at large before the Salem witch trials, executing women all across the Tendring Hundred for varying degrees of witch-esque activities. It had great tension as his sister is subjected to her brother's ghastly deeds, along with a plethora of secrets perhaps better left untold. The atmosphere is sparse and bleak, overcast with the coming dread of the witchfinder, fear in the hearts of his subjects.
4.5/5