Mortar & Pestle - The Novel

Mortar & Pestle

A Smal-town psychological thriller by Edmund Merriman

(E-version) (*If you are in South Africa and would like the physical paperback rather, hop over to www.edmundmerriman.com and make a purchase from there.) 

Amelia, a young teacher in the small town of Sárgard suspects that one of her pupils is being abused at home. The Church won’t help. The police won’t help. And the schoolgirl’s stepfather is not a man to be trifled with.

Young and naïve, she asks the help of the new gentleman in town. But the two of them are up against a close-knit community, wherein there is much hurt and few can be trusted.

Will they be able to save the girl from a monster?