Sweeney St. George looks nothing like a university
Professor with her unruly red curls and preference for
vintage clothing. Single and wary of relationships, she
pours her energy into her college teaching and a
passionate interest in cemetery art. And now Sweeney is
intrigued with a macabre graveyard statue of a beautiful
woman-a carving that is at once astonishing, sinister, and
perhaps hiding a one-hundred-year-old murder...
Dying to find out more about the strange monument, Sweeney
heads for a winter holiday among friends at a mansion in
Vermont's historic Byzantium Art Colony. Her plan is to
snoop in dusty archives and tromp through the tiny
cemetery where the statue still stands. But what Sweeney
finds in this isolated rural community is an emotional
awakening, a chilling link between old and new
crimes...and a clever killer reaching for her with deadly
hands.