bjerz's review
5.0
What a delightful find A Fugitive Truth is for an archaeologist wannabe and former archivist like me! The main character, Emma Fielding, is herself a historical archaeologist doing archival research a woman who owned a 18th century home that she is excavating and she is wildly excited to have access to her journal. As a good teacher, Emma muses about the value of seeming little things, like journals: "History tends to be about grand events or trends that are dissociated from the common person. Historical archaeology is about everyday things, it's finding out about people who didn't always have a voice or fair representation by those who kept the public records, its about filling in the blanks." As Emma delves further into the journal's details she discovers a secret code and a trial for murder. What could be more exciting? Oh, there are is a real murder mystery, too.
booklover81's review
5.0
I am currently reading A Fugitive Truth by Dana Cameron.
A Fugitive Truth
Dana Cameron
Mystery
336 pages
The past's blood stains the present
The opportunity of a lifetime awaits archaeologist Emma Fielding in the Berkshire foothills of Western Massachusetts: the chance to study the eighteenth-century diary of Margaret Chandler, the accused witch and murderess whose home Emma excavated only months before. However, the three other Shrewsbury Foundation fellows she must share the premises with are a disturbingly odd bunch, and before too long one of them is dead.
But Emma can find no solace in the bleak beauty of the surrounding wilderness, for there are dark secrets encoded in Madam Chandler's writings, and shocking parallels between an ancient slaying and the strange, brutal demise of her colleague. When the killer strikes again, Emma realizes her own life is at stake. And suddenly there is no choice left: she is driven to investigate bloody crimes past and present -- before her own death becomes a footnote in a chilling, three-centuries-old story.
A Fugitive Truth
Dana Cameron
Mystery
336 pages
The past's blood stains the present
The opportunity of a lifetime awaits archaeologist Emma Fielding in the Berkshire foothills of Western Massachusetts: the chance to study the eighteenth-century diary of Margaret Chandler, the accused witch and murderess whose home Emma excavated only months before. However, the three other Shrewsbury Foundation fellows she must share the premises with are a disturbingly odd bunch, and before too long one of them is dead.
But Emma can find no solace in the bleak beauty of the surrounding wilderness, for there are dark secrets encoded in Madam Chandler's writings, and shocking parallels between an ancient slaying and the strange, brutal demise of her colleague. When the killer strikes again, Emma realizes her own life is at stake. And suddenly there is no choice left: she is driven to investigate bloody crimes past and present -- before her own death becomes a footnote in a chilling, three-centuries-old story.
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