Ellis Peters: Flight of a Witch (USA 2015)

From the Publisher:
A detective investigates the disappearance of a beautiful Welsh teenager in this "deeply satisfying" mystery by the author of the Brother Cadfael series (Publishers Weekly).

Annet Beck is hauntingly beautiful, which worries her parents so much that they guard her as closely as a prisoner... until the rainy Thursday in October when she disappears. Annet is last seen vanishing over the crest of the eerie Hallowmount, a hill said to be the abode of witches. Five days later, she mysteriously reappears, claiming that she was only gone for two hours.

Enchanted by her beauty, Annet's parents' lodger Tom Kenyon is determined to find the explanation for her disappearance: Could it be deceit, amnesia, or witchcraft? Tom's amateur investigations lead to nowhere until Detective Inspector George Felse finds cause to connect those missing five days with his inquiry into a death.

Flight of a Witch is the 3rd book in the Felse Investigations, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Ellis Peters: Flight of a Witch. The Felse Investigations. MysteriousPress.com / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504027069 (December, 2015), eBook, 9.59 MB (ca. 247 p.), $8.99.

Ellis Peters: Flight of a Witch (USA 1992)

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"There is a kind of beauty that produces wolf whistles, and another kind of beauty that creates silence all about it, taking the voices out of men's mouths and the breath out of their throats."

Annet Beck's beauty is of the second order and it worries her parents so much that they guard her as closely as a prisoner... until the rainy Thursday in October when she disappears.

Annet is last seen vanishing over the crest of Hallow- mount, a hill in the remote Welsh Country believed to be the domain of witches. Five days later she mysteriously reappears, claiming that she was gone for only two hours. Detective Inspector George Felse doesn't believe in witchcraft, but he does believe in love and he never underestimates its power, especially when it may have led to murder...

"There is no mystery about Ellis Peters' international acclaim as a mystery writer." -- Chicago Sun-Times
"This is a deeply satisfying murder novel in which the central challenge lies in unraveling the mystery of a young noman's character." -- Publishers Weekly

Ellis Peters: Flight of a Witch. An Inspector George Felse Mystery. Mysterious Press / Warner Books, ISBN: 0446401463 (May, 1992), 232 p., $5.99.

Ellis Peters: Flight of a Witch (UK 1990)

From the Publisher:
Annet Beck has the kind of breathtaking beauty that strikes people dumb, and young teacher Tom Kenyon, a lodger in her parents' house, is no exception. When Annet disappears, last seen on the Hallowmount, an historic border site with an eerle reputation, Tom determines to find out where and why: Annet is adamant she's been away a mere two hours but there is irrefutable evidence that she has been gone for five days. What is the explanation? Deliberate deceit? Amnesia? Or witchcraft?

Tom's amateur investigations get nowhere until Detective Inspector George Felse finds cause to connect those missing five days with his enquiry into a death. The subsequent search takes the two men along a trail of betrayal, robbery and murder to a deadly confrontation among the ancient stones of the Hallowmount...

Ellis Peters: Flight of a Witch. George Felse Investigates. Headline, ISBN: 0747235562 (November, 1990), 356 p., £3.50.