num_pages: 192
description: "She's Agatha Christie with an attitude; outrageous and engrossing at the same time."Steven Womack,NASHVILLE BANNERBook four in Sharyn McCrumb's Elizabeth MacPherson murder mystery series.A motley crew of American and British professionals and amateurs gathers for an archaeological dig into prehistoric burial rites on a small Scottish island. Things already aren't going so well, when one of the strongest in the crew dies suddenly. Afraid for her life, fellow digger and forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson probes the rocky topsoil for a reason behind the evil aura of death that seems to hover over them. Is the excavation cursed by the ancient dead...or is there a more modern explanation behind the group's strangely rising mortality rate...?
language: English
title: Paying the Piper
titlecomplete: Paying the Piper
genres: Crime, Suspense, Scotland, Archaeology, Thriller, Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Humor, Mystery
ratings_count: 968
places: Scotland
series: Elizabeth MacPherson
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Paperback Original, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Severn House Pub Ltd