Indian Wood a Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island

A Short Description of Indian Wood In his new novel, Richard Folsom re-opens America's oldest unsolved mystery. It inquires into the mysterious disappearance of 116 men, women and children from Sir Walter Raleigh's 1587 attempt to plant the very first English colony in the New World. In North Carolina's venerable 'Our State' magazine, this historical fiction story is described as an exciting and intellectually stimulating journey that presents evidence like a well-prepared attorney, leaving the reader guessing till the very end. In the story, a professor of North Carolina history has found a possible link between the Lumbee Indians of Robeson County and the Lost Colonists of Roanoke Island. It was discovered inside an old master's thesis on the Indian slave trade that took place in the early days of the colony. He made one phone call to a trusted colleague. Three hours later he was found murdered in the library. Someone does not want the mystery of the Lost Colony to be solved, and is willing to kill to protect the secret. If were solved, it could affect the outcome of the Lumbee's one hundred year effort to be officially recognized by the federal government as an American Indian Tribe. The story ends in dramatic fashion on the land of an old Indian reservation called Indian Wood.