The Sweet Taste of Burning

This won't stand up to the big comparisons invited (not by us) - The Exorcist or Rosemary's Baby, since it's no more than a postpartum pang of a reminder thereof - a novella in which a sophisticated Frenchman dabbles in the diabolique. Serge, a journalist, happily married to Kim, goes down to the Pyrenees to look into the activities of a local shaman-healer only to find himself susceptible to the charms - and they are many and varied - of his niece Teresa. Returning to Paris Serge finds that his wife is overcome by a strange illness which would suggest that neither of them can escape Teresa, alive or dead. For the witching hour - it can't take any longer than that - but attractive enough. (Kirkus Reviews)