Foul Deeds Will Rise is a novel about satanist abuse, controversially set on the beautiful islands of Orkney. Three publishers in four years took it on but only Wild Wolf, an independent publisher from Newcastle, kept their nerve.
‘Foul Deeds Will Rise‘ is as dark and menacing as Hamlet. It is horrifying until it becomes plausible.’ Edmund White, winner of the 1918 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction
 | Jean RaffertyRafferty was formerly a journalist, known for tackling dark and difficult subjects such as suicide, torture, prostitution and abortion. She was shortlisted twice in the UK Press Awards, an unusual distinction for a freelance writer, and won a Rowntree Journalist’s Fellowship for her work on prostitution. Her drive towards challenging material continued in her fiction. Her first novel, Myra, Beyond Saddleworth, published by Wild Wolf, took the premise that Moors Murderer, Myra Hindley, did not die when the authorities said, but was given a new life and identity. Rafferty was heavily criticised for attempting to explore the mind of such a notorious killer, but the book was shortlisted for the 2013 Gordon Burn Prize and she has continued to hold out for her right to write what she wants. Her latest novel, Foul Deeds Will Rise, is about satanist ritual abuse and is set in Orkney, a choice some find provocative. |
