The Salon of Madame Feng

With "The Salon of Madame Feng" Sandrine Bessancort brings us a tale of occult evil, and demonic possession at its most puzzling and inescapable. Read on, as a visit to Paris with his fiancé to stay with a cousin and his wife by a stuffy and correct Englishman takes on a dangerous edge after the cousin suggests an evening out. An evening to be spent in company with the Chinese mystic, Madame Feng, at her Paris salon. Told to expect great and surprising things; our cynical and dismissive Londoner is surprised to encounter just that from the strangely and disturbingly compelling Chinese woman. And no less so from her unnaturally powerful and exceptionally loyal Parisian housekeeper! Ralph Eastwick's comfortable and intellectually unchilling life is about to become something far, far, different! Retro and re-imagined fiction influenced by the short-form masters of yesteryear for the reader who enjoys having the imagination fed without the writer of that story seeing a need to dot and cross every relevant vowel and consonant.   Ms Bessancort is a legal professional working out of Honfleur and is the author of "The Servant Revisited" and "Ancient Sorceries Revisited"; along with a number of other re-imagined and female-led stories of classic provenance.