Robert McCammon is my new favourite author and I’ve already got the next Matthew Corbett adventure (The Queen of Bedlam) on my bookshelf. McCammon is a consummate storyteller who creates a world so compelling and all-encompassing that I even considered staying off work so I’d be able to finish the book. His characters are totally believable and the plot, which throws its hero into a complex and disturbing investigation, had me completely absorbed from page one. ‘Speaks the Nightbird’ is the first book in the Matthew Corbett series (there are six so far), and it gets off to a cracking start. After a disastrous stint as sheriff of a small town in the Southwest, John Grady returns home to. The writing is superb, and immerses the reader in a God-fearing, witch-hating community that is as convincing and as frightening as anything I’ve ever come across in the pages of a book. Signed by author Robert McCammon directly on the title page. ‘Speaks the Nightbird’ is the first book in the Matthew Corbett series (there are six so far), and it gets off to a cracking start. I’m ashamed to admit I hadn’t heard of best-selling author Robert McCammon, but I certainly won’t be ignoring him any longer. But despite Matthew’s misgivings, Magistrate Woodward sentences the woman to death by burning, giving the young man only a few days to pursue his own theories. From New York Times bestselling horror novelist Robert McCammon comes a dark and chilling tale about a witch-hunt in the seventeenth century Carolina colonies. From New York Times bestselling horror novelist Robert McCammon comes a dark and chilling tale about a witch-hunt in the seventeenth century.

But the young clerk, Matthew Corbett, isn’t convinced of the woman’s guilt and when the magistrate falls ill, takes on the task of putting questions to the so-called witch. He was born in 1952 in Birmingham, Alabama and attended the University of Alabama. A magistrate and his clerk journey to the remote community of Fount Royal in The Carolinas, intending to put on trial a woman accused of witchcraft. McCammon is a popular horror fiction writer.

Speaks the nightbird by robert mccammon