Both bodies bear signs of ‘triple death,’ a primitive practice in which a victim was ritually slain three ways, perhaps to appease some pagan trinity.
But his corpse does show strange similarities to that of his ancient counterpart. How many hundreds or thousands of years ago was the man killed? Was his a ritual death, some kind of human sacrifice? These academic questions are intriguing, but of much more urgent interest is the second body found nearby of a man wearing a wristwatch, hardly an Iron Age accessory. American forensic pathologist Nora Gavin has been called to an archaeological site in the bleak midlands west of Dublin to assist at an excavation where a well preserved Iron Age body has been found buried in a peat bog. Meticulouslycrafted and resonating with traditional music and folklore, ‘ Haunted Ground‘ celebrates Ireland’s turbulent history, revealing the eternal, subliminal connections between past and present in a riveting novel that heralds the arrival of a bright new crime writing star.Īcclaimed by the critics for her luminous first novel, Haunted Ground, Erin Hart returns with a magnificent new tale of death and destiny, past and present, in an Ireland rich with tradition, myth, and mystery.
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. A dazzling debut already an international publishing sensation combining forensics, history, archaeology, and suspense.
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