The Cunning Man, Aaron Michael Ritchey
The Cunning Man, Aaron Michael Ritchey
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The Cunning Man

Author: Aaron Michael Ritchey, D.J. Butler

Narrator: Stephen Bel Davies

Unabridged: 11 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/02/2021


Synopsis

It's the depths of the Depression, and a mining town in Utah is shut down. Something has awakened underground, and now a monster roams the tunnels. Along comes Hiram Woolley. Hiram is a man with mystical abilities derived from the commonsense application of Scot-Irish folk wisdom and German Braucher magic. He possesses an arcane Bloodstone that allows him to see a lie the moment it is spoken. Behind the played-out farms and failed businesses are demons, curses, sorcerers, and unatoned wrongs. Bags of groceries and carpentry won't be enough this time. The job will take a man who has known sorrow. A man who has known war. A man of wisdom. A man of magic. The job will take a cunning man.

About Aaron Michael Ritchey

Aaron Michael Ritchey is the author of twenty-one novels and numerous pieces of short fiction. He was born on a cold and snowy September day in Denver, Colorado, and while he's lived and travelled all over the world, he's a child of the American West. Sagebrush makes him homesick. While he pines for the road, he still lives in Colorado with his cactus flower of a wife and two stormy daughters.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew

I loved this fantasy mystery, it was right up my alley. Set in Utah in the 1930s, Hiram Wooley, a beet farmer, is cunning man, conversant with practical folk magic, which is becoming increasingly forgotten in the modernizing world. Hiram is a do-gooder, sent on missions of aid by the Presiding Bisho......more

Goodreads review by James

The Cunning Man is a supernatural suspense novel that's a fun, easy read. Beneath that surface, it's also a rich and insightful piece of Mormon and Western literature, shedding vital light on the transition from a 19th century frontier culture to a 20th century economy and culture. I loved this book......more

Goodreads review by Peter

The Cunning Man by D.J. Butler and Aaron Ritchy Please give my Amazon review a helpful vote - [URL not allowed]-re... I picked this up thinking it might be along the lines Manley Wade Wellman's "Silver John" series, which I think was initially set during the same post-World War I time......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

Hiram, a practicing Mormon in the 1930s also practices folk magic on the side, but strives to hide it from his adopted Indian/indigenous son. On a trip to give food to miners working in a closed mine, Hiram investigates the reason for the mine's closure and yes, of course there are other people usin......more