Found: Pitch forks and hay dance

Fiction - Read the book in 1988. The one ‘scene’ I remember was about a group of people in a circle, with pitchforks, threatening (intent was to kill I think). The words from the book I think I remember is, ‘it’s the haydance…’

>1 Deidred: Googling gave me an online version of Puppet on a Chain with a scene like that; they were women with pitchforks, and they killed another woman. Yikes!

https://onlinereadfreenovel.com/alistair-maclean/page,19,61582-puppet_on_a_chain...

>2 vorkosigan: That is indeed the book, thank you so much

Good! you're welcome