Full name: The Last Witchfinder: A Novel

Author: James Morrow Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Fantasy Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780060821807 0060821809

Jennet Stearne's father hangs witches for a living in Restoration England. But when she witnesses the unjust and horrifying execution of her beloved aunt Isobel, the precocious child decides to make it her life's mission to bring down the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act. Armed with little save the power of reason, and determined to see justice prevail, Jennet hurls herself into a series of picaresque adventures-traveling from King William's Britain to the fledgling American Colonies to an uncharted island in the Caribbean, braving West Indies pirates, Algonquin Indian captors, the machinations of the Salem Witch Court, and the sensuous love of a young Ben Franklin. For Jennet cannot and must not rest until she has put the last witchfinder out of business. Similar books: Credo by Melvyn Bragg The Empress of the Last Days by Jane Stevenson The Golden Age by Gore Vidal Wife to Mr. Milton by Robert Graves The Swan Gondola by Timothy Schaffert Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon The Immigrants by Howard Fast Heyday by Kurt Andersen The Lightning Keeper by Starling Lawrence The Real Minerva by Mary Sharratt Gate to the Sea by Bryher Domino by Ross King Annapolis by William Martin Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler The Nature of Monsters by Clare Clark Galapagos Regained by James Morrow The Passion by Jeanette Winterson The Singing Sword by Jack Whyte Hild by Nicola Griffith The Grass Dancer by Susan Power