The Orkney Scroll

When one of antiquarian Lara McClintoch’s clients is accused of murder, the investigation leads Lara north to Scotland, to the Orkney Islands. Surrounded by striking natural beauty and ancient ruins, she immerses herself in an old Viking saga and sets out in search of a treasure capable of rewriting history. Before descending into madness, Bjarni the Wanderer hid the cup in an Orkney tomb... Such an intriguing statement, demanding explanation rather than simple statement of fact, may seem to some extent an irritating way to end a narrative. Yet there are people for whom this means a beginning rather than an end, a prospect on which hopes and dreams are founded. Whether you side with the dreamers, or you are a skeptic, or occupy a position somewhere between skeptic and dreamer, in any case you will have to go back to the beginning and be transported more than nine hundred years into the past.