This Rough Magic

When Lucy Waring's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet holiday on the island of Corfu, young English Lucy is overjoyed. Her work as an actress has temporarily come to a halt. She believes there is no finer place to be "at liberty" than the sun-drenched isle of Corfu, the alleged locale for Shakespeare's The Tempest. Even the suspicious actions of the handsome, arrogant son of a famous actor cannot dampen her enthusiasm for this wonderland in the Ionian Sea.

But the peaceful idyll does not last long. A series of incidents, seemingly unconnected — but all surrounded in mystery — throws Lucy's life into a dangerous spin, as fear, danger and death — as well as romance — supplant the former tranquility. Then a human corpse is carried ashore on the incoming tide... And without warning, she found she had stumbled into a nightmare of strange violence, stalked by shadows of terror and sudden death.

• Author
• Mary Stewart

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 373

• Publisher
• HarperTorch

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-06-074747-3

• EAN
• 9780060747473

• Settings
• Greece

• Genres
• mystery, fiction, romance, gothic, suspense, greece, thriller

• Release date
• 2004