By Erin Hart
Acclaimed through the critics for her luminous first novel, "Haunted Ground," Erin Hart returns with an impressive new story of loss of life and future, earlier and current, in an eire wealthy with culture, delusion, and mystery.American forensic pathologist Nora Gavin has been referred to as to an archaeological website within the bleak midlands west of Dublin to help at an excavation the place a well-preserved Iron Age physique has been chanced on buried in a peat bog.How many 1000's or hundreds of thousands of years in the past was once the guy killed? used to be his a ritual demise, a few form of human sacrifice? those educational questions are exciting, yet of even more pressing curiosity is the second one physique came across within reach -- of a guy donning a wristwatch, infrequently an Iron Age accent. yet his corpse does express unusual similarities to that of his historic counterpart. either our bodies undergo indicators of "triple death," a primitive perform within which a sufferer was once ritually slain 3 ways, maybe to assuage a few pagan trinity.Nora and archaeologist Cormac Maguire, embroiled in a tumultuous love affair, needs to workforce up back professionally, and are quickly enmeshed within the internet of tangled wants and bad secrets and techniques that encompass this premature dying. whilst the triple deaths proceed, Nora and Cormac recognize they're in the midst of a dangerous game.Everyone they meet turns out to have whatever to conceal: archaeologist Ursula Downes and bathroom supervisor Owen Cadogan can slightly comprise their mutual antipathy; bathroom employee Charlie Brazil and archaeology pupil Rachel Briscoe are eccentric misfits with relations issues; police detective Liam Ward hasn't ever thoroughly recovered from his wife's suicide. And staring at all of them from the outer edge is the shadowy determine of Brona Scully, whohasn't uttered a notice within the final ten years.The threat mounts, fueled by means of illicit liaisons, rumors of historic gold, and one person's thirst for vengeance. Nora and Cormac needs to tread conscientiously, for as they draw in the direction of the reality, they arrive ever closer to changing into the subsequent sufferers of a ruthless killer.A gripping follow-up to Hart's sensational debut, weaving jointly historical past, folklore, and forensics, and following within the evocative culture of writers similar to Elizabeth George and Daphne du Maurier, "Lake of Sorrows" is a passionate novel of suspense from a wonderfully proficient new crime-writing megastar.
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She remembered reading an account of bog workers finding and tossing around something they jokingly called a "dinosaur egg," only to find later that it was a badly decayed human head, a vessel that had once held memories, sensations, fears, the spark of an individual life. She uncovered a deeply furrowed brow, a left ear bent nearly in half, a left eye squeezed shut. She looked up at Dawson; he was uncovering the man's right forearm, which was flung out away from the body, chasing the sodden peat from between the finger bones so that they would be distinct when photographed.
So how had the victim come to be naked, and why--especially out on that broad expanse of milled peat? There was no evidence from the postmortem that he'd been bound--or was there? Victims of ritual killings were not usually cooperative, unless they were incapacitated in some way. Dr. Friel hadn't mentioned any blows to the head, and they'd have to wait for toxicology results to see if there had been any drugs involved. But the peat under the nails might suggest he hadn't been unconscious going into the bog.
The book, with its descriptions of queens, workers, drones, nurse bees, and undertakers, of their orderly existence and mysterious chemical communications, only whetted his appetite for more. He haunted the libraries in Birr and Tullamore, returning from each visit with another beekeeping book secreted under his jacket, hands clammy with excitement over the new knowledge it might impart. Once he had read every book he could lay his hands on, he'd sent away for a white beekeeping suit and veil. When he'd finally assembled the equipment he needed to set about putting the apiary to rights, his work had started in earnest.
