I really enjoyed how the two mysteries, the one from 200 years ago and the one unfolding as we read, played out. It’s a setup that leaves scant room for law enforcement officers or for Kyle Westergaard, the 12-year-old paperboy damaged since birth by fetal alcohol syndrome, who’s walked away from the wreck with a prize all too many people would kill for. In 1984, after the traumatizing death of her closest friend, amateur sleuth and former reporter Lindsay Gordon left England for California. A shriveled body found in a bog seems to bear resemblance to this dashing hero, right down to the South Sea tattoos that blacken his buttocks.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. If you believe that every patch of ground comes with its own story, then Val McDermid is the storyteller for you. A superb psychological thriller in which present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the Bounty.Her novels have won international acclaim and a number of prestigious awards, including the Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year, the Anthony Award for best novel, and the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award. This is a believable story that takes facts and spins an amazing tale of adventure, disappointment and murder and ties the past with present day in a very credible way. Jane Gresham is a postdoc who is an expert on William Wordsworth, and she grew up in the Lake District where Wordsworth lived and wrote.

McDermid is able to show off her knowledge of forensics (documented in her non-fiction Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime), primarily through the forensic anthropologist character. Despite her inside track on the connection between the sailor and the poet, however, there are some important things Jane doesn’t know. But on her trail is someone with a more than academic interest in the 200-year-old text, someone who will kill to get their hands on a bounty worth millions. In “A Place of Execution,” she unearthed the secrets of an insular village in rural Derbyshire that functioned like an ancient feudal tribe when doling out justice. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US.This is more of a plot combined with character study that doesn't pay particular attention to one component over the other. I was surprised by the ending - perhaps I would have picked up a clue or two if I'd paid more attention in the middle. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Guest artists are also a regular occurrence, allowing the people of Northern Ireland to be tattooed by International artists.

Indulgent nonsense, a back story so dull - but obviously not to the author - it kept putting me to sleep. And there he told his story to an old friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth, who turned it into a long narrative poem. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. Lost manuscripts, 200-year-old enigmas, an isolated Derbyshire village mystery and oodles of atmosphere: McDermid concocts a fascinating brew which is miles away from her customary bloody excursions into the realms of the perverse. Easy to see why so many, both scholars and rogues, would be interested in finding and perhaps even kill to get their hands on these yellowing parchments.Jane, a Wordsworth scholar finds evidence that such a poem might exist and that it was entrusted to a family servant and may have been lost or perhaps passed down through her family who might still have the original manuscript. In McDermid's crafty stand-alone thriller, psychiatrist Charlotte "Charlie" Flint gives expert testimony at the Leicester murder trial of Bill Hopton that contributes to his acquittal.