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Paying the Piper

Elizabeth MacPherson seriesbook 4 of 9Next:The Windsor Knot(1990) →

"She's Agatha Christie with an attitude; outrageous and engrossing at the same time."

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Book four in Sharyn McCrumb's Elizabeth MacPherson murder mystery series.

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A motley crew of American and British professionals and amateurs gathers for an archaeological dig into prehistoric burial rites on a small Scottish island. Things already aren't going so well, when one of the strongest in the crew dies suddenly. Afraid for her life, fellow digger and forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson probes the rocky topsoil for a reason behind the evil aura of death that seems to hover over them. Is the excavation cursed by the ancient dead...or is there a more modern explanation behind the group's strangely rising mortality rate...?

Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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