In the isolated, quirky village of Strangehaven - hidden in the depths of the English countryside - the village's police Sergeant starts investigating a mysterious hanging, an apparent suicide, and a disappearance which all took place on the same fateful night. But the village's clandestine society, the Knights of the Golden Light, creates divided loyalties amongst the village folk. Newcomer Alex is drawn into a web of intrigue with both the Knights and the secret witches' coven vying for his allegiance. Meanwhile, another murder plot is being hatched and a love triangle develops in the latest installment of Millidge's supernatural, darkly humorous romantic murder mystery. All this and a World War II RAF fighter pilot.
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The remote English village Strangehaven is a haven for strangers, all right, but it's also strange, however BBC-TV-serial it looks. Most male community leaders belong to an occult secret society, the Knights of the Golden Light. Moreover, strange things happen: the recent string of murders, for instance, that has police sergeant Kent Clarke suspending his Knighthood. This collection of Millidge's mystery soap opera opens with Clarke staring at womanizing grocer Peter Webb's hanging corpse. Shortly after, he's contemplating Webb's wife, dead in her bathtub. The town doctor and ad hoc coroner says it's probably murder in both cases. Unfortunately, Strangehaven is rife with suspects; only crazy old Ethel may not be implicated. More sudden death, no solutions, and a plot to put a mole among the Knights call for a fourth collection, at least. Millidge works from photographed models that he places in character and context with pen-and-ink and black watercolor, producing a gratifyingly kitchen-sinkish realism that he periodically disrupts with something outre (herein, the plane-crash incident) that restores a spooky ambience. Ray Olson
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