TY - BOOK AU - Preston,Douglas J. AU - Child,Lincoln TI - Crimson shore T2 - Aloysius Pendergast SN - 9781455525928 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Grand Central Publishing KW - Pendergast, Aloysius (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Criminal investigation KW - Salt marshes KW - Massachusetts KW - Wine KW - Witches KW - Trials (Witchcraft) KW - Salem KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - Suspense fiction KW - gsafd KW - Mystery fiction N1 - Map on endpapers; Sequel to: Blue labyrinth N2 - Pendergast and his ward Constance Greene travel to the quaint seaside village of Exmouth, Massachusetts, to investigate the theft of a priceless wine collection. But inside the wine cellar, they find a bricked-up niche that once held a crumbling skeleton. Local legend holds that during the 1692 witch trials in Salem, the real witches escaped, fleeing north to Exmouth and settling deep in the surrounding salt marshes, where they continued to practice their wicked arts. But the sins of the past are still very much alive when a new corpse turns up in the marshes. The only clue is a series of demonic carvings that could lead to an ancient witches' colony, long believed to be abandoned ER -