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200 years following the Salem witch trials, while in the summer of 1892, a grisly new witch hunt is starting,. When recently appointed Deputy Marshal Archie Lean is known as directly into examine a prostitute's murder in Portland, Maine, he's surprised to obtain the body organized such as for instance a pentagram and pinned to our planet having a pitchfork.  He's much more surprised to discover that this demise by "attaching" is just a conventional approach to eliminating a witch.      Perplexed by the ritualized killing picture, Slim privately enlists the aid of historian Helen Prescott and amazing criminalist Perceval Grey.  Distrusted by authorities due to his combined Abenaki Indian genealogy, Gray is much more infamous for mixing contemporary investigative practices having an almost spooky perceptiveness.  Though suspicious of every other's practices, together the investigators follow the killer's path through postmortems and opium dens, in to the spiritualist communities and lunatic asylums of medieval New England. Gray and Slim must understand the pattern to these killings--a pattern hidden within the black background of the Salem witch trials,      Prior to the killer closes in on his ultimate target.