"Carefully now." The old woman raised a warning finger to demand his attention. "Ask something foolish and I will have to smack you on the side of the head." She emphasized this, as though they'd already discussed it.
His voice creaking with dryness, Selwyn asked, "Do you warn me beforehand what questions are foolish?"
Apparently not. And apparently that was one of them. She smacked him on the side of the head.
Selwyn hasn't had the greatest of weeks. First, the love of his life, Anora, decided to marry Farold, then, adding injury to insult, Farold beats him up in front of the whole village. But before Selwyn can wallow too long in self pity, Farold turns up dead. Due to the unfortunate events of the week past, the blame falls on Selwyn. Selwyn ends the week shut up in a burial cave with Farold's lifeless body, wrongfully sentenced to die for Farold's murder. There is one tiny bright spot in all of this, fortunately it turns out to be the light of a witch come to collect a lock of hair from a murdered man and she just might be willing to help Selwyn out of his predicament. Unfortunately though, she tends to answer most questions with a smack to the side of the head.
This mystery novel is full of humor and great dialogue. I am not a big mystery fan but the characters and the comedy kept me reading to the end. It possibly also helped that one of the characters is named Kendra. Gotta love that!
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