Baptism in Blood

Features

• Cover Type: Mass Market Paperback with 352 pages
• Published by: Bantam November 1, 1996
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0553574647
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0553574647
• Book Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 7.2 ounces

Product Description
When an infant is found murdered at a controversial women's retreat located in the small community of Bellerton, North Carolina, rumored to be a den of Satan worship, former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian pursues the truth and learns that are many with an ungodly motive for murder.

Reader Reviews
All of Jane Haddam's Gregor Demarkian mysteries take place on holidays or other special occasions. They feature controversial issues of the day and lots of eccentric characters. "Baptism in Blood" features a lesbian camp just outside a small Southern town, an atheist bookseller, and some fundamentalists who are convinced that the camp harbors Satanists who have been performing ritual sacrifices. In contrast to all this eccentricity is former FBI agent Demarkian, known as "the Armenian-American Hercule Poirot," ordinary and sensible, a bastion of sanity in the mad world that surrounds him. This is a very entertaining mystery, and the whole series is well worth reading.