![]() Along the way, the characters and the reader alike are haunted by considerations of power stolen away and seized back, colonialism, loneliness, desire, obsession, friendship, and even love.”-Annabel Lyon ![]() ![]() Gothic horror meets feminist history in this deceptively spare novel of a 19th century Scottish waif turned serial killer. It is a spine-chilling tale of ghosts and murder, friendship and betrayal, love and greed, fate and choice. Agnes, Murderess presents a tortured, complicated woman struggling to escape her past. At the same time, the book grapples with the dangerous pre-conceived notions held by settlers that the country was a “new world,” free of ghosts and history. ![]() Leavitt puts a decidedly queer twist on the story, moving from women’s passionate friendships in the gardens of St John’s Wood to female relationships in the Canadian wild. Fascinated by this legend-which originated in a 1970s guide to buried treasure in BC, and has never been verified-Sarah Leavitt has imagined an entirely new story for the mysterious Agnes: her immigration to Canada from an isolated Scottish Island her complex entanglement with shiny things and her terrifying grandmother, Gormul, who haunts Agnes’s dreams and waking life. Agnes, Murderess is a graphic novel inspired by the bloody legend of Agnes McVee, a roadhouse owner, madam and serial killer in the Cariboo region of British Columbia in the late nineteenth century. ![]()
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