Devaney’s superiors want him off the Osborne case. Did Mina simply decide to disappear, or did mother and child become lost in the treacherous bog? Could they, too, be hidden in its depths, only to be discovered centuries from now? Or did the landowner, Hugh Osborne, murder his family, as some villagers suspect? Bracklyn House, Osborne’s stately home, holds many secrets for Nora and Cormac and policeman Garrett Devaney. Two years earlier, Mina Osborne, the local landowner’s Indian born wife, went for a walk with her young son and never returned. And the red haired girl is not the only enigma in this remote corner of Galway. Still, her tale may have shocking ties to the present, and Cormac and Nora must use cutting edge techniques to preserve ancient evidence. The red haired girl is clearly a case for the archaeologists, not the police. Who is she? When was she killed? The extraordinary find leads to even more disturbing puzzles. Peat bogs prevent decay, so the decapitated young woman could have been buried for two decades, two centuries, or even much longer. When farmers cutting turf in a peat bog make a grisly discovery the perfectly preserved severed head of a young woman with long red hair Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin team up in a case that will open old wounds.
Introducing Erin Hart, who brings the beauty, poignancy, mystery, and romance of the Irish countryside to her richly nuanced first novel. As they draw closer to the truth, Nora and Cormac must exercise the utmost caution to avoid becoming the next victims of a ruthless killer fixated on the gruesome notion of triple death.A dazzling debut already an international publishing sensation combining forensics, history, archaeology, and suspense. Someone has come to this quagmire to sink their dreadful handiwork - and Nora soon realizes that she is being pulled deeper into the land and all it holds: the secrets to a cache of missing gold, a tumultuous love affair with archaeologist Cormac Maguire, and the dark mysteries and desires of the workers at the site. As with all the artifacts culled from its prehistoric depths, the bog has effectively preserved the dead man's remains - his multiple wounds suggest he was the victim of an ancient pagan sacrifice known as "triple death." But signs of a more recent slaying emerge when a second body, bearing a similar wound pattern, is found - this one sporting a wristwatch. American pathologist Nora Gavin has come to the Irish midlands to examine a body unearthed at a desolate spot known as the Lake of Sorrows.
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