Crimson shore

A special agent of the FBI Aloisiy Pendergast reluctantly agrees to investigate the case of the abduction of a collection of rare wines and ... discovers a niche with shackles in the cellar, and with a thorough examination, a tiny human bone. Here, a man was once in alive. The robbery was clearly staged to bear the remains from here: someone really wants to hide traces of a crime committed a very long time-judging by the radiocarbon analysis of the bone, in the 1880s. What for?
Pendergast manages to find out that in the same years, the steamer in a strange way, along with passengers, crew and cargo, was strangely disappeared, including especially valuable. There were no debris or corpses ... except for the corpse of a visiting historian who was just studying the story of a disappeared ship. The killer cut out mysterious symbols on a dead body ...
The events of the past and the present are intertwined in a tight knot, and as the investigation, the agent realizes that there were not without the intervention of some dark forces