The Golden Scorpion

About the Book

Elaine Carpelan leaves her island in the Caribbean and moves with her African gray parrot, Barley, to Bournemouth on the south coast of England. There she joins her friend, Chay Stewart, who has inherited a furniture restoration shop from an old cohort in the antiques business. Elaine finds herself embroiled in an ancient scandal, caught up in a two-hundred-year-old mystery not without a few risky incidents including break-ins, a missing person, and one dead body. With help from her friends and a local detective, she uncovers the shocking truth of an old family estate, changing the lives of those connected to it forever.

About the Author

Christina Wilson was a personal property appraiser specializing in West Indian antiques and the manager of an auction house for eighteen years on St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands. Her first work, King Christian’s Rock: An Illusive Paradise, is a fictitious account of the vagaries of life there and sets the stage for her two main characters who continue their adventures in England in The Golden Scorpion. Wilson has traveled extensively and lived in England, Scotland, and Denmark prior to settling on St. Croix. She is semiretired and now lives and writes in Fairfax, California.