Had he known all that he'd turn up with the winter's fuel, perhaps he would have stopped that moment, climbed up onto the bank, and filled his shed with the uniform sods of extruded turf that a person could order nowadays by the lorry-load.īut Brendan continued, loosening each sopping black brick with the square-bladed turf spade, tossing it over the bank, where it landed with a plump slap. With a sodden rasp, Brendan McGann's turf spade sliced into the bank of earth below his feet. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Could they, too, be hidden in the bog’s treacherous depths, only to be discovered centuries from now? Or did Hugh Osborne murder his family, as some villagers suspect? Bracklyn House, Osborne’s stately home, holds many secrets, and Nora and Cormac's inquiries threaten to expose them all.
Two years earlier, Mina Osborne, the wife of a local landowner, went for a walk with her young son and vanished without a trace. The red-haired girl is not the only enigma in this remote corner of Galway. Who is she? The extraordinary find leads to even more disturbing puzzles. Because the bog’s watery, acidic environment prevents decay, it’s difficult to tell how long the red-haired girl has been buried-two years, two centuries, or even much longer. When farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery-the perfectly preserved head of a young woman with long red hair-Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin must use cutting-edge techniques to preserve ancient evidence.
Could they, too, be hidden in the bog’s treacherous depths, only to be discovered centuries from now? Or did Hugh Osborne murder his family, as some villagers suspect? Bracklyn House, Osborne’s stately home, holds many secrets, and Nora and Cormac's inquiries threaten to expose them all.The dazzling, award-winning debut in a series that delivers mystery, romance, suspense, and fascinating forensic detail.
The dazzling, award-winning debut in a series that delivers mystery, romance, suspense, and fascinating forensic detail.
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