Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #348371 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-10
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 464 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Having already won an Edgar for his Inspector Shan series (The Skull Mantra, etc.), Pattison makes a strong bid for another with this outstanding mystery set in colonial America. Scottish prisoner Duncan McCallum, indentured to the Ramsey Company, is troubled by a series of mysterious deaths on the ship carrying him to the New World. When McCallum's close friend Adam Munroe and a professor who was to work as a tutor are added to the list of the dead, McCallum, who has extensive medical training, is enlisted by the captain to investigate. The shipboard mysteries remain unresolved when they arrive in New York, and McCallum's quest for the truth leads him to perilous encounters on both sides of the French and Indian War. Pattison's moving characters, intricate plot and masterful evocation of the time, including sensitive depictions of the effects of the European war on Native Americans, set this leagues beyond most historicals and augur well for future entries in this series. (Jan.)
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Customer Reviews

Rattled
This book is full of great ideas but is executed with clumbsy writing. I found the story difficult to follow and the characters only partially realized. I finished it ... but I forced myself to ... not high praise. On the upside, I learned a lot about early American history ... well researched, realistic depiction of the time.