#1 – The Redemption of Alexander Seaton
Banff, 1626. Alexander Seaton, a disgraced former minister now working as an assistant schoolmaster, encounters a young man collapsing in the street during a storm. By morning the victim has died from poison and his body has been placed inside Seaton’s schoolroom, making Alexander both a…
#2 – A Game of Sorrows
Aberdeen, 1628. Alexander Seaton is approached by Sean O’Neill, a cousin who closely resembles him and carries a summons from their formidable grandmother in Ulster. A poet has pronounced a curse on the O’Neill family, and a sequence of threatening verses appears to be predicting the…
#3 – Crucible of Secrets
Aberdeen, 1631. Robert Sim, librarian of Marischal College and a close friend of Alexander Seaton, receives a package of rare works on alchemy and hermetic philosophy. Before he can explain their importance, he is murdered and the books disappear. The college principal asks Alexander to investigate…
#4 – The Devil’s Recruit
Aberdeen, 1635. A recruiting ship has arrived to enlist Scottish soldiers for the Thirty Years’ War, and one of Alexander Seaton’s students disappears after a drunken fight. When the young man’s companion is found injured and a woman’s frozen body is discovered in a private garden,…