'High John the Conqueror: A Novel' and Beyond: An Interview with Tariq Goddard

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When children start going missing in a rural town, the
investigation takes twists and turns into the strange world of
privilege and the realm of the occult.

"I always wanted to be a writer, but I became a policeman
instead."

WESSEX, 2016. Teenagers are vanishing off the council estates of
a small provincial city. A crop of herbs that are said to posses
magical powers which only grow once every fifty years are found
in the woods. A supernatural creature believed to be the guardian
of the herbs is seen in nightmares. Rumours of orgiastic rituals
on the estates of the rich and powerful excite the curious. And
the Queen of England decides to celebrate her 90th birthday with
a visit to the city’s famous cathedral spire. 

Into this madness, two ambitious detectives, one with doomed
literary ambitions, seek to solve the mystery, their only lead
that “posh people are taking our children”.

Blending mysticism, class war, societal malfeasance and
transcendence, High John The Conqueror identifies the point in
our recent history when the ghosts of our past become the
political monsters of the present.

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