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Bernie Quist #4
Badda Moon Rising
A modern-day Sherlock Holmes, Bernie Quist operates as a consultant detective from Baker Avenue in York. His assistant is Watson, although this Watson is a streetwise youth from the Grimpen housing estate and he's definitely no doctor. The mismatched duo take on bizarre cases which invariably lead into the realms of the supernatural, a shadowy world that, thanks to his dark secret, Quist is all too familiar with.
A new exhibition is on display in the York Museum highlighting the infamous Badda sect and an obscure period in local history. Hidden away in North Africa's Atlas Mountains, this secretive cult performed mystical rites and sacrifices to their god, a sinister deity in the form of a huge wolf. Two-thousand years ago, the Romans brought this clandestine religion to Yorkshire, but sickened by their obscene practises, the Emperor Hadrian crushed the sect before it could become established.
Quist and Watson suspect the exhibition is connected to the grisly murders which are currently baffling the York police. It can't be a coincidence that these magical artefacts arrived in time for a unique date at the full moon, and how is the glib clairvoyant Kyle Tarot involved in this? The detective’s terrified assistant soon wishes the Roman Emperor had been a little more thorough in his effort to stamp out the Badda cult.
A dark and very peculiar game is afoot…
A new exhibition is on display in the York Museum highlighting the infamous Badda sect and an obscure period in local history. Hidden away in North Africa's Atlas Mountains, this secretive cult performed mystical rites and sacrifices to their god, a sinister deity in the form of a huge wolf. Two-thousand years ago, the Romans brought this clandestine religion to Yorkshire, but sickened by their obscene practises, the Emperor Hadrian crushed the sect before it could become established.
Quist and Watson suspect the exhibition is connected to the grisly murders which are currently baffling the York police. It can't be a coincidence that these magical artefacts arrived in time for a unique date at the full moon, and how is the glib clairvoyant Kyle Tarot involved in this? The detective’s terrified assistant soon wishes the Roman Emperor had been a little more thorough in his effort to stamp out the Badda cult.
A dark and very peculiar game is afoot…
315 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 1, 2020
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About the author
Ian Jarvis
8 books43 followersIan was born in the north of England, where he worked for three hectic decades as an operational firefighter with the West Yorkshire Fire Service. He lives in York, where he writes comedy and humorous detective novels chronicling the exploits of private investigator Bernie Quist. A modern-day Sherlock Holmes, the eccentric Quist operates as a consultant detective from an office on Baker Avenue in York. His assistant is Watson, although this Watson is a streetwise youth from the Grimpen council estate and he's definitely no doctor. The mismatched duo take on bizarre cases which invariably lead into the realms of the supernatural, a shadowy world that, thanks to his dark secret, Quist is all too familiar with.
Ian travels regularly, usually through Asia and the Americas. His interests include walking the North York Moors and Yorkshire Dales, natural history with an emphasis on birds, real ale, and ridding the world of all known evils.
He also feels decidedly peculiar speaking in the third person and may have to do this in the future using a sinister ventriloquist's doll.
You can visit Ian at https://www.ianjarviswriter.com/
Or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ian.jarvis.165
Ian travels regularly, usually through Asia and the Americas. His interests include walking the North York Moors and Yorkshire Dales, natural history with an emphasis on birds, real ale, and ridding the world of all known evils.
He also feels decidedly peculiar speaking in the third person and may have to do this in the future using a sinister ventriloquist's doll.
You can visit Ian at https://www.ianjarviswriter.com/
Or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ian.jarvis.165
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May 5, 2024
The Yorkshire Evening Post would have a field day.
Living local I can attest to the accuracy of locations used. So Mr. Jarvis has a way of using locations he knows well and he does so with aplomb. As someone who has always had an interest in the supernatural, I find these books enthralling. No matter what entity is walking among the pages, they are clearly investigated fully as any detective worth their salt would do.
Another e-page that kept being turned eagerly awaiting to hear who would be possessed, eaten or shocked into submission. Thanks for the riveting entertainment yet again.
These books would appeal to a variety of people Goth or not. Not for the squeamish or faint-hearted however.
Can't wait to hear what will be conjured up next.
Living local I can attest to the accuracy of locations used. So Mr. Jarvis has a way of using locations he knows well and he does so with aplomb. As someone who has always had an interest in the supernatural, I find these books enthralling. No matter what entity is walking among the pages, they are clearly investigated fully as any detective worth their salt would do.
Another e-page that kept being turned eagerly awaiting to hear who would be possessed, eaten or shocked into submission. Thanks for the riveting entertainment yet again.
These books would appeal to a variety of people Goth or not. Not for the squeamish or faint-hearted however.
Can't wait to hear what will be conjured up next.
September 6, 2023
fun story...great book
January 27, 2022
In this book, Mr Jarvis brings Ancient Rome into the mix, and by Iovis!, he does it wonderfully!
Old cults, ancient rites, human sacrifices and werewolves... what could go wrong? *laughs*
With each book, I fall more deeply in love with this series. The way in which it keeps adding from the previous stories is great. And I love. love, love that Bradstreet is finally aware of the supernatural world. Not ALL of it, mind you, there are still secrets (like what Quist really is), but at least she now knows the general scoop :P
And it looks like I'll always love Watson, no matter in which incarnation; but seriously, the kid is fantastic. He spends most of the book deadly afraid, but he never once backs off. ♥
Christopher Power is still doing an awesome job with the narration :D
Old cults, ancient rites, human sacrifices and werewolves... what could go wrong? *laughs*
With each book, I fall more deeply in love with this series. The way in which it keeps adding from the previous stories is great. And I love. love, love that Bradstreet is finally aware of the supernatural world. Not ALL of it, mind you, there are still secrets (like what Quist really is), but at least she now knows the general scoop :P
And it looks like I'll always love Watson, no matter in which incarnation; but seriously, the kid is fantastic. He spends most of the book deadly afraid, but he never once backs off. ♥
Christopher Power is still doing an awesome job with the narration :D
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