In this fourth in the Will Rees series but it is easily read as a standalone. Will Rees is a weaver by trade and a detective by nature. Will and eventually his wife Lydia are far from home. Will is in Salem to buy a gift for his wife and he meets up with Twig, a friend he served with in the Revolutionary War. His fiancée has been accused of murdering her employer and is now in jail. He asks Will to help him by finding the real murderer. There are a lot of candidates for the murder of a fine merchant and two others. Eleanor Kuhns does a fabulous job of bringing this dark and fascinating period in history to life. The witchcraft angle has always been of interest to me. She portrays the darkness of Salem vividly. Her characters really bring Salem in the late 1700s to life. I enjoyed the twists in the plot and the mood of the novel. The solution is clever and very satisfactory. A good historical read.