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Bone Rattler
Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America | Eliot Pattison
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In a novel rich in historical detail, acclaimed author Eliot Pattison reconsiders the founding of America and explores how disenfranchised people of any age and place struggle to find justice, how conflicting cultures can be reconciled through compassion and tolerance, and ultimately how the natural world has its own morality. Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, protagonist Duncan McCallum witnesses a series of murders and apparent suicides among his fellow Scottish prisoners. A strange trail of clues leads Duncan into the New World and eventually thrusts him into the bloody maw of the French and Indian War. Duncan is indentured to the British Lord Ramsey, whose estate in the uncharted New York woodlands is a Heart of Darkness where multiple warring factions are engaged in physical, psychological, and spiritual battle. Exploring a frontier world shrouded in danger and defying death in a wilderness populated by European settlers, Indian shamans, and mysterious scalping parties, Duncan, the exiled chief of his near-extinct Scottish clan, finds that sometimes justice cannot be reached unless the cultures and spirits of those involved are appeased.
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I'm bailing on this book for now. I didn't realize til today that I had just started it when my best friend's husband became ill and passed away. I'll give it another go later on.

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Started Bone Rattler for #bookspin. It‘s slow moving but I‘m enjoying it. I‘m not getting nearly enough reading time this week because my college bestie‘s husband collapsed at home last week & has been in the ICU, tubed & vented, sedated, & chemically paralyzed. He‘s also on dialysis. Not covid, probably sepsis from pneumonia. He‘s only 36 and their twin baby girls just hit 9 months. I‘m spending a lot of time with her.

Kimzey I pray your friend‘s husband makes a full and rapid recovery. 2y
TheAromaofBooks Oh my goodness!!! How terrifying!! Sepsis is so scary. I'll be praying for him and his family. ❤ 2y
mrsmarch @TheAromaofBooks it‘s been a helluva week. There‘s not much I can do besides spend an occasional day with her and the beebs. 2y
MaureenMc 💗🙏💗 2y
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