A Mysterious Review of Blood of the Oak by Eliot Pattison. A Duncan McCallum Mystery.
Review summary: Elegantly crafted with a strong sense of time and place, this is yet another outstanding entry in this fine series. It's hard to find fault with a book so well-written and engaging, with an intriguing plot set at the time of a turning point of American history, but it isn't perfect, with some uneven pacing in the narrative. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Blood of the Oak
Eliot Pattison
A Duncan McCallum Mystery
Counterpoint (March 2016)
Publisher synopsis: Duncan McCallum is drawn into the mystery of ritualistic murders that are strangely connected to both the theft of an Iroquois artifact and an additional series of murders and kidnappings connecting to the network of secret runners supporting the nascent committees of correspondence — which are engaged in the first organized political dissent across colonial borders. In following the trail he encounters a powerful conspiracy of highly placed English aristocrats who are bent on crushing all dissent. Duncan is captured by its agents, and sent into slavery in Virginia beside the kidnapped runners. Inspired by an aged native American slave and new African friends Duncan decides not just to escape but to turn their own intrigue against the London lords.
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