Alchemy

A compelling mystery combining the witch trials of the past with a contemporary case of academic intrigue. Solicitor Jade Green's life takes a turn for the bizarre when she accepts an unusual case - that of a university professor accused of Satanism. As jade delves into the strange circumstances of his dismissal, she fends herself drawn into a seventeenth-century manuscript, the original of which has been stolen from the Professor's briefcase at the university. It is the diary of Amyntas Boston, a young woman awaiting trial for dabbling in the black arts. The two stories intertwine as jade feels mysterious echoes of the trial in her own life, and resonances of Amyntas' experiences four hundred years before...