Boasting blurbs from such notable authors as Harlan Coben, Tess Gerritsen and Joseph Finder, this could be McDermid's break-out book. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. ) vividly contrasts marginal subsistence in London's dismal Marshpool neighborhood with the Lake District's bucolic lifestyle.
With a feminist, socially conscious spin, McDermid ( The Distant Echo Various subplots complicate her quest, including a fraught friendship with precocious 13-year-old Tenille, a lonely, mixed-race girl who also loves Romantic poetry. Jane searches relentlessly for a lost manuscript by the poet Wordsworth that relates Christian's tale in tantalizing excerpts between chapters. 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. Mutineer Fletcher Christian returned secretly from exile to his homeland in the late 18th century. The author expertly weaves the myths that surround Christian Fletcher, who in the eighteenth century was involved in the mutiny of the Bounty, with the discovery of a mysterious tattooed corpse found in a peat bog, creating an intelligent and erudite page-turner of a book. Scholar Jane Gresham pursues her theory that HMS Bounty
The award-winning and Number One bestselling Val McDermid crafts an electrifying psychological suspense thriller that mixes history, heritage and heinous crimes. Suddenly Jane is at the heart of a 200-year-old mystery that still has the power to put lives on the line.Īgainst the dramatic backdrop of England's Lake District a drama of life and death plays out, its ultimate prize a bounty worth millions.An intriguing, 200-year-old mystery propels this multilayered stand-alone from British author McDermid set in England's Lake District. The Grave Tattoo (Paperback) Your local Waterstones may have stock of this item. But as she pursues each new lead, death follows hard on her heels. 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. 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. For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. Bounty.Īfter torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, long discarded old wives' tales takes on a chilling new plausibility. The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid - 9780312936105 Categories: Contemporary Fiction Crime Crime Fiction Historical Crime Historical Crime Thriller Books Share The Grave Tattoo 3. In The Grave Tattoo, suspense master Val 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.
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