Vorstellung auf Englisch, denn auch das Buch gibt es bisher nur auf Englisch.
Amazon-Kurzbeschreibung:
No one knows what the grave robbers were looking for when they violated the grave of Connor Hawthorne's recently deceased grandmother, Gwendolyn. Whatever it was, they didn't find it, but they died trying.
Two corpses and a casket full of stones are all that Connor has to go on as she leaves her home in Santa Fe,N.M. for Glastonbury, England, with Laura Nez, the courageous Navajo guide who saved her life in the high desert of New Mexico at the end of Deceptions, the first Connor Hawthorne Mystery. But Connor, an ex-district attorney turned crime novelist who is no stranger to mystery and danger, is scant prepared for the family secrets that come tumbling out of the past and threaten to engulf not only her, but everyone she loves.
From modern England to the mists of ancient Avalon, Witchfire weaves a thoroughly contemporary tale of murder and danger tied to an ancient and powerful secret. As she did in Deceptions, Lauren Maddison once again blends thriller fiction with mythology and lets it build to a heart-pounding conclusion. Connor Hawthorne will face her ultimate enemy, and the outcome will require more than gunplay.
Meine Meinung:
Well, here I am again, having read "Witchfire" – and utterly disappointed. If it hadn't been for the four main characters, all of whom had endeared themselves to me in the course of "Deceptions", I probably wouldn't even have finished it. And it certainly wasn't for the characterisation in "Witchfire" that I remained attached to them.
It's not that I mind the spirituality in this book at all. I was prepared to be drawn in again into a trip to the spiritual planes, and the setting of Glastonbury in England, with its mysterious hill, works very well for a modern day Avalon. But that's about it. The author doesn't even fully explore the potential of her own painstakingly chosen setting.
The timing is all wrong, too. Over half of the book feels like the author is setting the scene rather than telling a story – this might work for a 1000 page fantasy novel, but not for a normal-size mystery. When the scene is finally set, the book is already almost over. The author prepares us for a big showdown at the top of the mysterious hill, but it turns out to be almost an anticlimax- it's over before it has really begun.
There are many references to the first book of the series. The author tries to bring the reader who may not have read "Deceptions" up to speed with the previous events in the lives of her characters, but this attempt backfires in two ways: I read "Deceptions", so I didn't need all the minutiae and found them annoying, and someone who hadn't read it still wouldn't understand what happened in that desert and, more importantly, to Connor's grandmother Gwendolyn, who is not around and yet omnipresent in the sequel.
Lauren Maddison, as an American author, uses the British setting and the characters for "local colour". However, many of the characters remain stereotypical sketches, and although the author does make an effort to exploit the differences between British and American English in depicting them, she doesn't manage to write credible dialogue throughout.
On the strength of how much I liked the first Connor Hawthorne mystery, I'll be brave and give the third one a try. I'm not giving up on this author yet. However, no matter how much you liked "Deceptions", steer clear of "Witchfire". 
<- 'klick'