Scone Island (Ike Schwartz Series) - Hardcover

Ramsay, Frederick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 146420053X ISBN 13: 9781464200533

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press, 2012

Synopsis

"All the fast-paced action and danger readers have come to expect." ―Kirkus Reviews

Ike Schwartz, Sheriff of Picketsville, Virginia, and his fiancée Ruth Dennis, the President of a local university, seek asylum from a trying year of academic and local politics on Scone Island, four miles off the coast of Maine. Its lack of electricity, reliable water supply, and phone service guarantee their seclusion and peace. The suspicious accident that resulted in the death of the mysterious Harmon Staley should not concern them at all. And it doesn't...until Ike's past as a CIA agent rolls in on him like the area's famous twelve-foot tides. Two more murders involving former colleagues send Ike's old CIA friend Charlie Garland searching for a connection. Stonewalling by the CIA and conspiracies―real and imagined―leave Ike and Ruth facing an unknown number of determined assassins alone on the island. Then Ruth's mother decides to drop in on them just as the excitement begins....

About this title

About the Author:

Frederick Ramsay was raised on the east coast and attended graduate school in Chicago. He was a writer of mysteries set in Virginia, (the Ike Schwartz Mysteries) Botswana Mystery series, Jerusalem Mystery series and stand-alones (Impulse, Judas: The Gospel of Betrayal). He was a retired Episcopal Priest, Academic, and author.

Review:

"Fast pacing, plot twists, and multiple points of view keep the pages turning in this consistently entertaining series." — Booklist review by Sue O’Brien

"The latest mystery-thriller for Ike (Rogue, 2011, etc.) provides all the fast-paced action and danger readers have come to expect"—Kirkus

"Ramsey’s engaging eighth Ike Schwartz mystery...will amuse literary and history buffs" —Publishers Weekly

2006 Publishers Weekly 100 Best Books for Impulse
2008 Arizona Book Award, Religion and Spirituality for Judas
2009 Arizona Book Award, Mystery and Suspense Finalist for Stranger Room
 

About this edition

• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 146420053X
• ISBN 13: 9781464200533
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250