Crimson Shore (A.X.L. Pendergast Series, Book #15) by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Crimson Shore (A.X.L. Pendergast Series, Book #15) by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Pendergast, together with his ward Constance Greene, travels to the quaint seaside village of Exmouth, Massachusetts to investigate the theft of a priceless wine collection. But they find something considerably more disturbing: a bricked-up niche that once held a crumbling skeleton.
Pendergast and Constance soon learn that Exmouth has a very dark and troubled history. Local legend holds that during the 1692 witch trials in Salem, the real witches escaped, fleeing north to Exmouth and settling deep in the surrounding salt marshes. Then a murdered corpse turns up in the marshes. The only clue is a series of mysterious carvings on the body. Could these demonic symbols bear some relation to the ancient witches' colony?
A terrible evil lurks beneath the surface of this sleepy seaside town -- one with deep roots in Exmouth's grim history. And it may be that Constance is the only one who truly comprehends the awful danger that she, Pendergast, and the residents of Exmouth must face.
Grand Central Publishing, Softcover, 2015
THIS IS A BRAND NEW BOOK.