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| Original Title: | Speaks the Nightbird |
| ISBN: | 1416552502 (ISBN13: 9781416552505) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Matthew Corbett #1, Łabędzi Śpiew #2 |
| Setting: | Fount Royal, Carolina,1699(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) for Historical/Military Fiction (2003), Alabama Author Award for Fiction (2004) |
Robert R. McCammon
Paperback | Pages: 816 pages Rating: 4.13 | 9110 Users | 1033 Reviews
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| Title | : | Speaks the Nightbird (Matthew Corbett #1) |
| Author | : | Robert R. McCammon |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 816 pages |
| Published | : | July 17th 2007 by Gallery Books (first published 2002) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery. Fiction. Horror. Thriller. Audiobook |
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The Carolinas, 1699: The citizens of Fount Royal believe a witch has cursed their town with inexplicable tragedies, and they demand that beautiful widow Rachel Howarth be tried and executed for witchcraft. Presiding over the trial is traveling magistrate Issac Woodward, aided by his astute young clerk, Matthew Corbett. Believing in Rachel's innocence, Matthew will soon confront the true evil at work in Fount Royal.After hearing damning testimony, magistrate Woodward sentences the accused witch to death by burning. Desperate to exonerate the woman he has come to love, Matthew begins his own investigation among the townspeople. Piecing together the truth, he has no choice but to vanquish a force more malevolent than witchcraft in order to save his beloved Rachel and free Fount Royal from the menace claiming innocent lives.
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Ratings: 4.13 From 9110 Users | 1033 ReviewsAssessment Regarding Books Speaks the Nightbird (Matthew Corbett #1)
What a wonderful book, loved it. This is a historical novel set in 1699 South Carolina. Eight hundred pages of dense prose in the language and syntax of the time period. Just enough for spice, though. This is a murder mystery, and romance wrapped up in a wonderfully long novel. Did I say I loved it?The author does a brilliant job establishing, the fictive dream, and holding me there. It tells the story of the early years of South Carolina, lifes hardships, and what it took to settle a hostileSPEAKS THE NIGHTBIRD was my introduction to Robert McCammon and Matthew Corbett as well. I've devoured all the Corbett books since. IMO, there isn't a more engaging or thrilling series in print.
Robert McCammon is better known as a horror author, and he brings his horror-novelist sensibility to this big, thick historical novel: it's gritty and dark and full of bloodshed and perversion, kind of schlocky and gratuitous in places (like the almost irrelevant subplot about the dude who really, really loves his horse...), and yet entertaining enough to keep me going through the entire massive length of it.Matthew Corbett, our protagonist, is accompanying his employer, Magistrate Isaac
[9/10] Came the time when the two travelers knew night would catch them, and shelter must be found. It had been a joyful day for frogs and mudhens. For the human breed, however, the low gray clouds and chill rain coiled chains around the soul. By the calendar the month of May should by all rights and predictions be charitable if not merry, but this May had entered like a grim-lipped miser pinching out candles in church. Does anybody else like to read the opening paragraph of a novel and try to
The year is 1699 and something wicked is afoot in the town of Fount Royal, a cunning evil with Satan's fingermarks all over it. We journey back to the days of witch trials, rat catchers, bloodletting, heated blister cups, and crude colonics. Only three books into Robert McCammon's repertoire, I am amazed at his versatility. This foray into historical fiction with a dark mystery brewing is fantastic. Top 10 shelf material.
Speaks the Nightbird was Robert McCammon's return to publishing after a decade long hiatus that ended in 2003, a period in which the author struggled to break free of the horror genre and find a publisher to go to bat on a different sort of novel. The first in a series of colonial mysteries following inquisitive law clerk Matthew Corbett, it takes place in 1699, with Corbett a twenty-year-old ward to Magistrate Isaac Woodward. The magistrate and his young clerk are en route to Fount Royal in the
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