EAN: 9781455525942

DOUGLAS PRESTON - GEBRAUCHT CRIMSON SHORE (AGEN...

When a straightforward murder case spirals out of control  Pendergast and his ward investigate
an ancient witches' colony in a sleepy New England town where a terrible evil awaits . . .   A
secret chamber. A mysterious shipwreck. A murder in the desolate salt marshes.   A seemingly
straightforward private case turns out to be much more complicated-and sinister-than Special
Agent A.X.L. Pendergast ever could have anticipated. 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 inside the wine cellar  they find
something considerably more disturbing: a bricked-up niche that once held a crumbling skeleton.
Pendergast and Constance soon learn that Exmouth is a town with a very dark and troubled
history  and this skeleton may be only the first hint of an ancient transgression  kept secret
all these years. But they will discover that the sins of the past are still very much alive.
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  where they
continued to practice their wicked arts. Then  a murdered corpse turns up in the marshes. The
only clue is a series of mysterious carvings. Could these demonic symbols bear some relation to
the ancient witches' colony  long believed to be abandoned?  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  with her own troubled past  is the only one who truly comprehends the awful
danger that she  Pendergast  and the residents of Exmouth must face . . .

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