- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Forge Books (Aug 15 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312867689
- ISBN-13: 978-0312867683
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 14.2 x 2.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #641,332 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Edghill has a chatty, witty style that keeps the action fast-paced. Definitely a new twist to the mystery genre."--USA Today
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Like Susan Isaacs, Rosemary Edghill cast a keenly observant, friendly, yet faintly amused eye on an intriguing American micro-culture. Like The Witches of Eastwick, the Bast novels offer a very new view of the practitioners of a very old faith. Like Alice Hoffman, Edghill allows that there's still magic in the air.
Rosemary Edghill's Bast novels are a real treat. Bell, Book, and Murder contains all three Bast novels, Speak Daggers to Her, Book of Moons, and the first softcover edition of The Bowl of Night (excerpted in USA Today).
Rosemary Edghill's Bast novels are a real treat. Bell, Book, and Murder contains all three Bast novels, Speak Daggers to Her, Book of Moons, and the first softcover edition of The Bowl of Night (excerpted in USA Today).
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I could say this was any large Eastern city, but you'd know it was New York. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A real Wiccan's Wiccan,
By Jay "Jay" (Oklahoma) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bell, Book, and Murder: The Bast Mysteries (Paperback)
I love Bast! These books (now put into one volume) portray a real Wiccan in a real Pagan community, with all its beauty and hangups. I enjoyed trying to figure things out and what was going to be done. This is in my top three favorites!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pagan 'cozy',
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This review is from: Bell, Book, and Murder: The Bast Mysteries (Paperback)
This is a collection of the three "Bast" novels - nearly the total of the series to date (one short story is missing). Bast, AKA Karen Hightower is a thirtysomething wiccan living in NYC. As she is quick to point out there is nothing supernatural about her, she is simply a practicing member of the local pagan community. The mysteries are entertaining but not very complex, the true interest here is the story of Bast and her communitity. Bast and the other characters are all well drawn and shown - warts and all. The stories take place over the course of a few months June through October."Speak Daggers to Her" begins with the death of a wannabe Wiccan and introduces most the rest of the characters that will appear in the other books. "Book of Moons" concerns the thefts of various Books of Shadows and escalates to murder and fraud. "The Bowl of Night" moves the action out of the city to a pagan festival and murder of a ranting local.
1.0 out of 5 stars
A reader in North Caroliona,
By A Customer
This review is from: Bell, Book, and Murder: The Bast Mysteries (Paperback)
This book is mostly a waste of money, unless you are looking for a run of the mill mystery. I hope these stories are not a accurate look at the Wiccan community. The main character Bast; seems to be more interested in drinking beer and wondering who her next partner is going to be than doing any kind of magic or prayer or even ritual. The only ritual in the book is so watered down so as to be all inclusive that you can't even tell that it is a Wiccan ritual. Save your mony and look else where if you are hopeing to be entertained with realistic Wiccan magick and/or religion
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