KITCHEN TABLE WRITERS: 2015-07-12

Tuesday, 14 July 2015

The Third Shaman Mystery

Coming soon in print and Kindle -
The 3rd Shaman Mystery, featuring Sabbie Dare.
Pre-order to be sure of the best price and quickest delivery. Pre-order Beneath the Tor from Amazon

Beneath the Tor £9.75

Eligible for FREE UK Delivery and

Beneath the Tor is set in Glastonbury, one of the most mystic places in England. It's midsummer eve, and Alys has danced the entire night away on the summit of Glastonbury Tor. As the solstice sun rises, she drops onto the grass.

“I saw her spirit rise. It’s already gone.”

Sabbie Dare is again in the middle of a mystery with

a murder to solve, but this time, all the people closest to

her are suspects, and one of them is in deadly danger.

Pre-order Beneath the Tor from Amazon

I am a druid; a pagan path which takes me close to the earth and into the deep recesses of my mind. Shamanic techniques help me in my life - in fact they changed my life - although, unlike Sabbie, I’ve never set up a therapeutic practice. I now write crime fiction, published by Midnight Ink.

Some years ago, Sabbbie Dare walked directly into my mind, fully formed and announced; “I'm a young therapist, a shaman, and sometimes I do get very strange people walking into my therapy room...”

I grew up in the West of England, and love the vast moors of the Somerset Levels. Their beauty takes away my breath, but they have a wildness that is equally sombre, mysterious and threatening. I set my Shaman Mysteries in this unique place, and love to immerse the stories in the landscape and traditions.

In Beneath the Tor, Sabbie spends the summer solstice in Glastonbury, where she learnt her shamanic practice. She's become experienced in therapeutic shamanism – helping people through contact with the spirit world – and she’s there to run a workshop for other shamans.

After Alys Hollingbury, beautiful, rich and newly-wed, dies on the summit of the mystic Tor, her grieving husband Brice receives sinister and anonymous emails, which seem to link to a series of brutal attacks. As Sabbie heads closer to the truth about Alys’ shocking death, a deranged killer is also heading towards a showdown with a final victim. Sabbie knows she will not stop until she has all the answers…even though it is possible her closest shamanic friends might be involved.

Beneath the Tor will be released in the US in December 2015 and will be out in the UK in the new year, but you can buy the first two in the series now at; Nina Milton's Amazon Page

This well-written story

is incredible knowledgeable, suspenseful,

and a truly cool adventure

into the world that lies ‘beyond';

Suspense Magazine

Sabbie Dare is the most compelling

protagonist and Milton’s tale is riveting.

The visceral suspense Milton creates is

commendable, not to mention terrifying.

I like pairing her work with Elly Griffiths’s

atmospheric English mysteries.

Library Journal

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Ronald Hutton

Nina Milton has created a unique fictional world in her Shaman Mystery Series, featuring Sabbie Dare as a young shaman. With Beneath the Tor she passed the ultimate test of a writer, that of causing me to put off useful jobs which I really should have been doing, in order to see what happens next. She has become a mistress of plot-weaving, and above all, she pulls off the trick of setting the totally fantastic amid the totally everyday and making the two fit together with pace and excitement. Ronald Hutton (Ronald Hutton is professor of history at Bristol University and an authority on the history of pagan beliefs. He’s the author many books including of’The Triumph of the Moon’, ‘Shamans’ and ‘Pagan Britain’)

ANOTHER GREAT REVIEW FOR IN THE MOORS

Another great review online for In the Moors, the first Shaman Mystery by Nina Milton.

Sabbie Dare, the zany, feisty heroine of Nina Milton’s In The Moors, is a city girl of mixed race and lost parentage; as a child she went into the care system and by the time she was twelve was a little fighting machine.

When we meet her, she’s 28 and clear about her path in life; she’s an eco-friendly pagan living in Somerset where she works as a therapeutic shaman. Her clients come to her for last-resort help, and such is Cliff Houghton...

If you'd like to read all the review, just click the link below.

http://www.skylightrain.com/book-review-in-the-moors-by-nina-milton/

Sky Light Rain is a great blogsite for readers and writers alike, with writing tips, reviews and general literary based chat and information. I'm making it one of my must-visit sites.

What do Pagan Readers think of the Shaman Mysteries?

In The Moors is the latest offering from Nina Milton, author and OBOD member, introducing the seemingly-unlikely detective Sabbie Dare. Sabbie, like all the best heroes of the crime thriller genre, is impulsive, courageous, a bit odd, and less than lucky in love. Sabbie is a shamanic counsellor, and when not tending to her chickens or chasing bargains at car boot sales, spend her days helping her clients. It is one such encounter that plunges Sabbie into a dark world of murder and horror past and present.For me, this holds its head up with the best of its genre and so comes highly recommended – and for those of you, like me, who are already hooked, the next Sabbie Dare novel is already in the pipeline. Can’t wait!

Review in Touchstone (magazine of OBOD-Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids)

A real page-turner, In the Moors cost me several hours of sleep because it was so un-put-downable! An engaging heroine, a landscape at once so real and so menacing, and an intriguing mystery had me enthralled into the wee hours! Mara Freeman

(Mara Freeman is a respected teacher of Western esoteric tradition and the author of ‘Kindling the Celtic Spirit’ & ‘Grail Alchemy’’)

I could not put down Unraveled Visions by Nina Milton. I congratulate her on a real page turner. I loved the sinister Fergus Quigg’s story of the Blarney Stone; I’ll look forward now, to reports that American Tourists will attempt to sanitize it with wetwipes before leaning in for a kiss, which could be amusing to the locals! I held on to my belief in Fergus’ innocence until the last; no man who writes in a notebook with pen could possibly be all bad, could he? But as the concluding tensions burst, and the final secrets were revealed, Unraveled Visions kept me up long past my bedtime (as promised by Mara Freeman), especially when Sabbie’s shamanic experiences with snakes became the great finishing twist. Nina Milton makes the unbelievable credible and persuasive. Ana Adnan

(Ana Adnan is a Wiccan High Priestess and a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids)

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