Scone Island - Ike Schwartz, Bk 8 Author:Frederick Ramsay Rest in Peace — Ike Schwartz, sheriff of Picketsville, Virginia, and Ruth Dennis, the president of a local university and Ike’s fiancée, need some peace and quiet after a trying year of academic and local politics. So, they seek asylum on Scone Island, a rocky island four miles off the coast of Maine. Its lack of ele... more »ctricity, reliable water supply and phone service guarantee their seclusion and peace. And the suspicious death of the mysterious Harmon Staley should not concern them at all...
Then Ike’s past as a CIA agent rolls in on him like the area’s famous twelve-foot tides. Two more murders involving former colleagues elsewhere in the country send Charlie Garland, Ike’s old friend from the agency, searching for a connection. Stonewalling by the CIA and conspiracies -- real and imagined -- end with Ike and Ruth facing an unknown but determined group of assassins... alone.« less