I love Sarah Painter’s Urban Fantasy series, Crow Investigations, so I was excited to read the first in her new Unholy Island Series. Like urban fantasy, this is set in the ‘real world’ but with magical and/or mythical elements, but the difference with this series is that instead of being set in a big city (often London for British books) this series is set on a tiny remote island which is magically warded from the outside world so visitors never stay more than two days and once off the island people forget all about it.
When a young man starts to camp on the island, and shows no signs of leaving and then dead bodies start appearing, the islanders must work together to find out what is going on and who they can trust.
The book had a slower (more rural!) feel and as well as the magical elements lots of character development and the murder mystery story kept me interested. I will eagerly await the next book in the series.
Sarah Wray Writer 