Download or read book Murder at Anawan Rock written by Edward Lodi and published by . This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder in a lonely place¿Surrounded by swampland, Anawan Rock sits like a brooding sphinx in eerie solitude near a rural stretch of Route 44 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.Renowned for an event that occurred there during King Philip¿s War--the capture by Benjamin Church of the great Wampanoag field commander after whom the rock is named--the historic spot has long had a reputation for being haunted. But surely it is not ghosts that are responsible for the grisly crime perpetrated there.A week before Halloween the mutilated body of Kenny ¿Mumbles,¿ a lowly character familiar to the New Bedford waterfront, is discovered atop the rock, victim apparently of a ritualistic killing. But what was Kenny, who seldom if ever left the city, doing so far from home? And what is the connection, if any, between his murder and a subsequent killing in the seaside resort of Onset? Or to events that happened in Plymouth Colony more than three centuries ago?The police may be stymied, but amateur sleuth Lena Lombardi--for reasons of her own--is determined to uncover the dark secret behind the two hideous crimes. She will solve this baffling mystery.Even if it kills her¿