The Charm Stone
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Publisher Description
When the replica of a sixteenth-century Witch Box is stolen from the Scottish castle for which Jean Fairbairn’s significant other, ex-Scottish cop Alasdair Cameron, has been supervising security, Jean finds herself drawn into the mystery. And what of the original Charm Stone, once supposedly kept inside the Witch Box? It disappeared three hundred years ago. Was is really last seen in the colony of Virginia, perhaps in historic Williamburg itself?
One thing is certain -- someone is willing to kill to find it. For the Charm Stone may be more than it seems.
It’s All Hallows Eve in historic Williamsburg, Virginia. Amid falling leaves and autumn shadows, Jean and Alasdair must deal again with murder most grotesque. With ghosts only they can see. With things going bump in the night of their own relationship!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Carl's well-crafted fourth Jean Fairbairn/Alasdair Cameron mystery (after 2007's The Burning Glass) takes Jean, a journalist for travel magazine Great Scot, and Alasdair, a former detective, from Edinburgh to historic Williamsburg, Va. While attending a reception at a local museum, Jean spies the Witch Box, a 16th-century chest curiously missing its charm stone. The mystery behind the origin of the box heightens with the theft of a replica and the death of the replica's Williamsburg designer in a tragic accident. A myriad cast of characters adds plenty of suspects to the list of possible murderers after a body is discovered hanging from a tree on All Hallows Eve. Could the killer be a female professor who specializes in the arts of witchcraft or an eccentric man bent on proving that witchcraft and the supernatural don't exist? While detailed descriptions of various historical artifacts tend to slow the action, cozy fans should be satisfied.
