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![]() | Witch Cradle (2006) (The third book in the John McIntire series) A novel by Kathleen Hills |
January, 1951, while the country is in the grip of war in Korea, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and Senator Joe McCarthy, the residents of St. Adele, Michigan are more concerned with staying warm and shoveling snow, until a bizarre ice storm brings down a towering pine. Entangled in its roots is evidence that leads Constable John McIntire to the abandoned farmstead of a young couple who had supposedly left the community years before, part of an exodus of Finnish-Americans gone off to build a workers' Utopia in the Soviet republic of Karelia. McIntire's fears are realized when he discovers two bodies, buried sixteen years in an unused cistern.
In his zeal to uncover the truth, McIntire brings the scrutiny--and the suspicion--of a Red-hunting government agent upon his neighbors and himself. It is only the beginning of his mis-calculations. Each step in investigating the deaths seems only to bring more misery to the living. Old wounds are opened, old terrors rekindled, and old wrongs exposed. McIntire himself is not immune. He struggles to solve the two-decades old murders, while a part of the past he hoped to bury forever threatens to destroy his new life.
In his zeal to uncover the truth, McIntire brings the scrutiny--and the suspicion--of a Red-hunting government agent upon his neighbors and himself. It is only the beginning of his mis-calculations. Each step in investigating the deaths seems only to bring more misery to the living. Old wounds are opened, old terrors rekindled, and old wrongs exposed. McIntire himself is not immune. He struggles to solve the two-decades old murders, while a part of the past he hoped to bury forever threatens to destroy his new life.
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Hardback Editions
March 2006 : Hardback
| Title: Witch Cradle Author(s): Kathleen Hills ISBN: 1-59058-254-3 / 9781590582541 (USA edition) Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
May 2012 : Paperback
| Title: Witch Cradle Author(s): Kathleen Hills ISBN: 1-4587-3963-5 / 978-1-4587-3963-6 Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
October 2007 : Paperback
| Title: Witch Cradle Author(s): Kathleen Hills ISBN: 1-59058-467-8 / 9781590584675 (USA edition) Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
August 2006 : Paperback
| Title: Witch Cradle Author(s): Kathleen Hills ISBN: 1-59058-255-1 / 9781590582558 (USA edition) Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
May 2011 : Kindle edition
| Title: Witch Cradle: A John McIntire Mystery: John McIntire Series, Book 3 (John McIntire Mysteries) Author(s): Kathleen Hills Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
December 2009 : Kindle edition
| Title: Witch Cradle Author(s): Kathleen Hills Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
December 2009 : Kindle edition
| Title: Witch Cradle Author(s): Kathleen Hills Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
January 2006 : Unknown
| Title: Witch Cradle Author(s): Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, Scottsdale, AZ Availability: Amazon More details... |
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