 When
young academic Terry Williams goes to a remote corner of the
Scottish Highlands, it's with the intention of editing the letters
of Catherine McCulloch, tortured and burnt as a witch in the
seventeenth century. But then the body of a young woman is found
on a local farm, dumped in the death pit amongst a pile of rotting
pigs. She is Donna Fairhead, one of a nearby community of Wiccans,
or modern day witches.
As the forensic excavation of the death pit throws up yet more
horrors, Terry's work on the letters reveals that there may have
been more to Catherine's death than anyone has imagined. And as
the present-day death toll mounts, Terry realises that the identity
of the killer may also be part of a three-centuries-old mystery,
a mystery whose next victim might well be herself…
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