Book summary

In his sequel to THE POISON TREE, author Tony Strong whips up a terrifying brew of murder, sex, and witchcraft. When lesbian and Oxford graduate student Terry Williams travels to a small Scottish village to research the life and death of Catherine McCulloch, a rich 17th-century landowner who was accused of being a witch, she gets more than the average footnote. Past meets present when the body of a young woman who belonged to a coven of witches--and who was last seen reading McCulloch's diaries and letters--is found in a death pit on a pig farm. As suspense builds around Terry's search for the truth behind the violent deaths of these two women, her burning sexual attraction to a man poses another mystery: what is Terry's sexual identity?

Media reviews

"Not only is the author politically correct by choosing a protagonist who's a smart, independent woman, but he's written a book that's hard to put down. And who's to argue with a quick, engaging read?"