Occult detective Ariel Moravec investigates the theft of a mysterious grimoire.

Ariel Moravec has started her training as an apprentice mage and amateur sleuth, under the tutelage of her grandfather, Dr. Moravec. Her days are spent garbling herbs at Aunt Clarice's hoodoo shop and working through the foundations of French occult literature.

But her studies are interrupted by the disappearance of a book that might well be a powerful work of black magic. Assisting her grandfather on the case, Ariel finds herself drawn into the tangled history of Adocentyn.

Legend has it that the town is home to the hidden treasure of a long dead pirate. As Ariel begins her own hunt for the treasure, she discovers that she is not the only person searching. Could the treasure be related to the lost book of magic, or a masked prowler roaming the hushed streets of the old city?

The threads of the case unravel and intensify, and Ariel finds herself racing against malevolent forces that will stop at nothing to find the treasure first...

About the Author

John Michael Greer is the award-winning author of more than fifty books, including 'The New Encyclopedia of the Occult', 'The Druidry Handbook', 'The Celtic Golden Dawn', and 'Circles of Power: An Introduction to Hermetic Magic'. An initiate in Freemasonry, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, Greer served as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) for twelve years. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife Sara. Greer is also the author of eleven fantasy and science fiction novels and ten nonfiction books on peak oil and the future of industrial society, and also blogs weekly on politics, magic, and the future at www.ecosophia.net.

Reviews

Praise for The Witch of Criswell (Sphinx, 2023) the first book in the Ariel Moravec series:

"A very cute and fun book by John Michael Greer. Full of interesting and true occult elements. Very quick read. A nice short book to pass the afternoon/evening with. Hope JMG has more plans in store for Ariel Moravec."
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Book Information
ISBN 9781912573912
Author John Michael Greer
Format Paperback
Page Count 196
Imprint Aeon Books Ltd
Publisher Aeon Books Ltd