Scholar Terry Williams has come to Scotland to study the life of Catherine McCulloch, a 17th-century woman accused of "congress with the devil" and burned at the stake as a witch. But at the moment Terry arrives in Inverness, another killing has been uncovered: the dismembered body of a beautiful young woman found at a nearby farm.
As police descend on the remote town, Terry digs into the past, uncovering a grim connection to Catherine McCulloch's death three hundred years before. And when a local group of partner-swapping Wiccans is suspected of murder--and more--the two cases come crashing together. Suddenly, in this rural corner of Scotland, Terry finds herself making friends, lovers, and enemies--because of who she is, because of what she wants, because of what she knows about a killer's twisted mind....
"Quick and engaging...A book that's hard to put down."
--Time...
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Scholar Terry Williams has come to Scotland to study the life of Catherine McCulloch, a 17th-century woman accused of "congress with the devil" and burned at the stake as a witch. But at the moment Terry arrives in Inverness, another killing has been uncovered: the dismembered body of a beautiful young woman found at a nearby farm.
As police descend on the remote town, Terry digs into the past, uncovering a grim connection to Catherine McCulloch's death three hundred years before. And when a local group of partner-swapping Wiccans is suspected of murder--and more--the two cases come crashing together. Suddenly, in this rural corner of Scotland, Terry finds herself making friends, lovers, and enemies--because of who she is, because of what she wants, because of what she knows about a killer's twisted mind....
"Quick and engaging...A book that's hard to put down."
--Time Out New York,
"Engrossing entertainment."
--Library Journal
"Exciting...An invigorating novel...A wonderful amateur sleuth tale with elements of a historical mystery...Tony Strong makes a strong case that he is heading to the top."
--Harriet Klausner, Midwest Book Reviews
Don't miss Tony Strong's debut novel
The Poison Tree
"A perversely compelling upscale erotic thriller, a victory for the guilty pleasure."
--San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle
"Witty, assured and clever...an accomplished literary thriller."
--Cosmopolitan
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