Fiction

50

What links Isaac Newton to a series of horrific murders and a centuries-old quest for occult knowledge and the secret of the philosopher’s stone? Oxford. A young woman is found brutally murdered, her throat cut. Her heart has been removed and in its place lies an ancient gold coin. Hours later another woman is found dead. The MO is identical, except that this time her brain has been removed, and a silver coin lies glittering in the bowl of her skull. Laura Niven is a former New York journalist visiting the city where she’d been a student 20 years earlier. As she follows slender leads, despite scepticism and resistance from the police, Laura soon discovers that these horrific murders are not just confined to the here and now. A story gradually emerges that connects the members of the Royal Society in the 1600s - including Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley, and Christopher Wren - with alchemy and a modern-day search for the Philosopher’s Stone. With this knowledge, Laura becomes the one person who, in a desperate race against time, has any chance of stopping the killer from completing a terrifying series of ritual murders. Equinox is a riveting thriller that spans centuries as it unravels the mani behind the pursuit of occult knowledge.

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2018-06-26 18:15:48