The Death Pit
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ISBN: 0385333153 / Publisher: Delacorte Press, August 1999
When scholar Terry Williams arrives in Inverness, Scotland, to complete her research on a woman burned at the stake for "congress with the Devil" in the seventeenth century, she finds the city in an uproar over the very recent murder of a young Wiccan woman
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Scholar Terry Williams plans to go to Babcock Castle in Inverness, Scotland, with one goal in mind: to finish her research on Catherine McCulloch, a 17th century woman accused of "congress with the devil" and burned at the stake as a witch during Scotland's notorious witch trials, which darkly mirrored those in Salem, Massachusetts, in their ferocity and scope. When Terry arrives, however, she discovers a town obsessed with a more recent death. The dismembered body of a beautiful young woman, Donna Fairhead, has been found on a farm near Babcock. When she hears rumors that Donna was a part of Nineveh, a Wiccan coven, only Terry is able to see the grim connection to Catherine's death almost three hundred years earlier.As Terry continues her work, she discovers both a town filled with secrets and lies and a truth left buried in Catherine's yellowed letters and the mysterious Book of Shadows. It soon becomes clear that only Terry understands the dimensions of the crimes that have occurred and - unless the puzzle is unraveled in time - are about to happen again.
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