# A Handful of Ash

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- Book: [A Handful of Ash](https://www.bookquiver.com/marsali-taylor/a-handful-of-ash) ([A Handful of Ash.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/marsali-taylor/a-handful-of-ash.md))
- Authors: [Marsali Taylor](https://www.bookquiver.com/marsali-taylor)
- Publisher: headline_accent
- ISBN: 978-17-8615-021-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2016-10-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Liveaboard skipper and amateur sleuth Cass Lynch is busy at marine college in Scalloway, until one night she finds an acquaintance dead in a doorway with her hand smeared with peat ash. Rumours spread of a strange ritual linked to the witches once burned in Shetland’s ancient capital, and of a horned figure abroad in the night. At first Cass believes these to be mere superstition, until there’s a second murder, and she begins to wonder if the devil really does walk in Scalloway …