The Grave Tattoo
1 journaler for this copy...
Book purchased today from the Anglicare op-shop in Croydon Road to read and release.
From inside fly-leaf:
"In a novel reminiscent of 'The Rule of Four', 'The Dante Club' and 'The Historian', suspense master McDermid spins a psychological thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty.
After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, long discarded old wives' tales takes on a chilling new plausibility. For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. And there, he told his story to an old friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth, who turned it into a long narrative poem - a poem that remained hidden lest it expose Wordsworth to the gallows for harboring a fugitive.
Wordsworth specialist Jane Gresham, herself a native of the Lake District, feels compelled to discover once and for all whether the manuscript ever existed--and whether it still exists today. But as she pursues each new lead, death follows hard on her heels. Suddenly Jane is at the heart of a 200-year-old mystery that still has the power to put lives on the line. Against the dramatic backdrop of England's Lake District a drama of life and death plays out, its ultimate prize a bounty worth millions."
FYI: Anglicare Victoria.
From inside fly-leaf:
"In a novel reminiscent of 'The Rule of Four', 'The Dante Club' and 'The Historian', suspense master McDermid spins a psychological thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty.
After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, long discarded old wives' tales takes on a chilling new plausibility. For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. And there, he told his story to an old friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth, who turned it into a long narrative poem - a poem that remained hidden lest it expose Wordsworth to the gallows for harboring a fugitive.
Wordsworth specialist Jane Gresham, herself a native of the Lake District, feels compelled to discover once and for all whether the manuscript ever existed--and whether it still exists today. But as she pursues each new lead, death follows hard on her heels. Suddenly Jane is at the heart of a 200-year-old mystery that still has the power to put lives on the line. Against the dramatic backdrop of England's Lake District a drama of life and death plays out, its ultimate prize a bounty worth millions."
FYI: Anglicare Victoria.
Beneath dust jacket, book has been neatly covered to protect it on its journey, with a sticker on the front.
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Really enjoyed this one. Perhaps as I spend so much time transposing genealogical records I found the research and the family connections so interesting.
Yet the story was also fascinating, and I hope future readers also enjoy it.
Really enjoyed this one. Perhaps as I spend so much time transposing genealogical records I found the research and the family connections so interesting.
Yet the story was also fascinating, and I hope future readers also enjoy it.
