"Myriad twists and turns juice the plot and deepen the atmosphere in Hart's moody second offering." Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review Hart taps into this deep vein of regional superstition, creating characters whose eccentricities have been handed down in their bloodlines." More a brooding presence than a dramatic backdrop, the bog is 'a mysterious, holy place, home to spirits and strange mists, a place of transformation and danger' that works a spell on people with a need to connect to their ancestral past. "Hart spins another uncanny tale linking the bizarre bloodletting practices of the ancients with modern acts of violence.
A magnificent follow-up to a sensational debut, LAKE OF SORROWS again weaves together history, folklore, and forensics, conjuring the dark character of the Irish countryside in a complex and chilling thriller. Nora and Cormac must tread carefully, for as they draw closer to the truth, they come ever nearer to becoming the next victims of a ruthless killer. The danger mounts, fueled by illicit liaisons, rumors of ancient gold, and one person's thirst for vengeance. Nora and archaeologist Cormac Maguire, embroiled in a tumultuous love affair, must team up again professionally, and are soon enmeshed in the web of tangled desires and terrible secrets that surround this untimely death. 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 sacrifice? These academic questions are intriguing, but of much more urgent interest is the second body found nearbyof a man wearing a wristwatch, hardly an Iron Age accessory.
Like the ancient body, the new corpse bears multiple wounds, suggesting the ghastly ritual sacrifice of Ireland's blood-soaked pagan past.
Pathologist Nora Gavin has been called to an archaeological site in the bleak midlands west of Dublina place known as the LAKE OF SORROWSto assist at an excavation where a well-preserved Iron Age body has been found in a bog.īut moments after her arrival a much more recent victim is discovered. A magnificent tale of death and destiny, past and present, in an Ireland rich with tradition, myth, and mystery.ĭeath hangs heavy in the disturbed air of Ireland's lonely Loughnabrone peat bog, an ancient holy place, steeped in legend, drowned in sorrow, and long since abandoned by man.
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