Crucible of Secrets

Download or read book Crucible of Secrets written by Shona MacLean and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Midsummer, 1631. While Alexander Seaton and his fellow masters enjoy the holiday with their students, Robert Sim, librarian of Marischal College, is murdered in a dark alleyway in town. While the university and town authorities investigate the murder, Seaton is asked by the college principal to look into Sim's private life. In the course of an investigation in which his personal feelings threaten to cloud his judgment, he discovers a side to the librarian he could never have guessed at.