Paying the Piper
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ISBN: 0345345185 / Publisher: Ballantine Books, November 1988
An archaeological team digging on a remote Scotland island has a killer in its ranks, and as the team dwindles, it is up to graduate student and part-time sleuth Elizabeth MacPherson to stop the murderer from digging any more graves
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"She's Agatha Christie with an attitude; outrageous and engrossing at the same time."Steven Womack, NASHVILLE BANNERBook four in Sharyn McCrumb's Elizabeth MacPherson murder mystery series.A motley crew of American and British professionals and amateurs gathers for an archaeological dig into prehistoric burial rites on a small Scottish island. Things already aren't going so well, when one of the strongest in the crew dies suddenly. Afraid for her life, fellow digger and forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson probes the rocky topsoil for a reason behind the evil aura of death that seems to hover over them. Is the excavation cursed by the ancient dead...or is there a more modern explanation behind the group's strangely rising mortality rate...?
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