Kirjahaku

Virginia Davies, a curator at the Southbrook Museum, discovers a murder at the American Archaeological Convention only to become the next target in a fast-paced action thriller.Archaeologists and televangelists are about as compatible as oil and water. Virginia Davies, a curator of American History at the Southbrook Museum, attends the American Archaeological Convention in Napa, California. The arrival of The Reverend Hockings is controversial enough. His dropping dead makes it worse. The coroner and police rule the cause of death a stroke. Virginia discovers it is a murder. The killers now want her dead. Virginal follows a trail of blood and corruption from the lush vineyards of Napa to the cool fog-shrouded coast of Northern California to find the killers of a seemingly unsolvable case.

Museum curator Virginia Davies is on a vacation with her fiancé , Dr. Andy Clark, and his parents to Scotland to visit Andy's Great Uncle, The Baron of Finlaystoke. They are there to witness a centuries old ceremony involving a locked chest and a mysterious historic treasure. Murder, however, is not on the agenda. Snobbish relatives, pompous lawyers, poisonings, a madman on a motorcycle and someone out to kill her make for an interesting party and another misadventure for Virginia. With the police and killer trailing behind, Virginia hunts for the mysterious treasure and murderer at the Baron's ancient stone manor. Virginia figures out what the treasure is, but locating it proves daunting until she remembers the clue from the chest. Weaving her way through secret tunnels, and a using a cache of medieval weapons she discovers, Virginia turns the tables on the culprits in the cutting conclusion.