The Moon Spun Round by New Zealand author Elenor Gill is her apparently standalone supernatural/horror thriller set in a sleepy-seeming English countryside village, involving a recently-settled-in woman who slowly uncovers troubling secrets of the past after one of her new friends is murdered, free courtesy of publisher Diversion Books, who are e-printing it from its 2008 HarperCollins New Zealand edition.
Currently free @
Amazon (available to Canadians & in the
UK) &
iTunes (available to Canadians and many other places worldwide, as Diversion freebies often are).
Description
After a deep betrayal leaves her reeling and embittered, Sally Lavender escapes to the peaceful village of Hallowfield. Expecting to find solitude in the pastoral setting, she instead finds companionship with five women, with all of whom she shares a strangely intense connection.
Before long, the shadows of her past slowly fade away and Sally discovers how strong the ties are that bind her to Hallowfield and to her new friends. But the serenity of her fresh start will be shattered when one of the women in murdered, and those very ties will demand retribution.