Description
One wet November morning, a field on Meagher’s Farm gives up the dismembered bones of eleven women. In this part of Ireland, unmarked graves are common. But these bones date to 1915, long before the Troubles. What’s more, these bones bear the marks of a meticulous executioner. These women were almost certainly skinned alive.
Detective Katie Maguire, of the Cork Garda, is used to dead bodies. But this is wholesale butchery. Her team think these long-dead women are a waste of police time. Katie is determined to give them justice.
And then a young American tourist goes missing, and her bones, carefully stripped of flesh, are discovered on the same farm. With the crimes of the past echoing in the present, Katie must solve a decades-old ritualistic murder before this terrifying killer strikes again.
Review
I was gripped by this well written crime thriller with a twist of horror. Set in Cork where the only and first female Superintendent, Katie Maguire is called when a number of bones are uncovered on a farm. Sinister deaths nearly a century ago lead to present day murder. Why? And who would commit such macabre acts?
A brilliant read!
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