Scone Island

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Praise for an earlier Ike Schwartz mystery... "Combines a Tom Clancy-like knowledge of ground-to-air missiles with a Robert Ludlum-like spy adventure." -Library Journal starred review of Choker Ike Schwartz, Sheriff of Picketsville, Virginia, and his fiancee Ruth Dennis, President of a local university, seek asylum from academic and local politics on Scone Island, four miles off the coast of Maine. The suspicious accident that resulted in the death of the mysterious Harmon Staley should not concern them at all...until Ike's past as a CIA agent rolls in on him like the area's famous twelve-foot tides. Soon Ike and Ruth find themselves facing an unknown number of determined assassins alone on the island. Dr. Frederick Ramsay served on the University of Maryland School of Medicine faculty, and in 1971 he was ordained an Episcopal priest. He currently lives in Arizona with his wife Susan. www.frederickramsay.com

Frederick Ramsay was raised on the east coast and attended graduate school in Chicago. He was a writer of mysteries set in Virginia, (the Ike Schwartz Mysteries) Botswana Mystery series, Jerusalem Mystery series and stand-alones (Impulse, Judas: The Gospel of Betrayal). He was a retired Episcopal Priest, Academic, and author.

"2006 Publishers Weekly 100 Best Books" for" Impulse" "2008 Arizona Book Award, Religion and Spirituality "for "Judas" "2009 Arizona Book Award, Mystery and Suspense Finalist" for "Stranger Room"