Specrtral Evidence by Eileen Charbonneau and Jude Pitman.

 Five out of Five stars review for Spectral Evidence by Eileen Charbonneau and Jude Pitman.

 

Until I read Spectral Evidence by talented novelists Eileen Charbonneau and Jude Pitman, I did not know what the title meant. A definition of it  is “evidence based on the dreams and visions of the accuser.” During the Salem Witch Trials that I knew little about, “it was testimony entered into the court record by witnesses, who testified that a specter spirit came to them in a dream and caused harm to them.”

Eileen and Jude draw their readers back to colonists in Newfoundland, who, in 1692,   wanted to stay out of Old World politics. When war was declared between France and England they feared the might of the French navy.

Events are experienced through seventeen-year-old Charlotte Jaddore whose Mi’kmaq and Beothuk grandmothers taught her ‘sacred healing arts.’ Will she help her father to save their prosperous American relatives arrested after neighbours accused them of witchcraft because they covet their wealth? Charlotte is afraid that if she brings their young heirs, Mary, Philip and William, to her beloved island it will be infected by spectral evidence.

Spectral Evidence is a well-written novel with interesting historical fictional characters.   

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