A single misstep can lead to a slow, agonizing death, with the body preserved for centuries in the depths. Hart has an uncanny ability to craft a setting so real that readers will expect to smell peat smoke in the air.Ī peat bog is harsh and unforgiving to the life that exists within its boundaries. Lake of Sorrows is a moody book, carrying in it a feeling of isolation and despair. Hart creates her multi-layered plots by weaving together archaeology, folklore, local history, and well-crafted characters. In her second novel featuring Nora Gavin, Lake of Sorrows, Hart returns to the bogs for another look at local history, buried secrets, and Irish music. Now however, Nora is just hoping to save Cormac from a murder charge - and keep them both alive.Įrin Hart burst onto the mystery scene in 2003 with her multiple award-winning novel, Haunted Ground. Still haunted by her sister’s gruesome murder, Nora had hoped this time in the midlands would offer her the chance to tell her lover, archaeologist Cormac Maguire, that she was leaving to return to the United States. Shortly after her arrival at the site, a second body is found also bearing the signs of triple death – only this one is wearing a wristwatch. The peat bog has preserved the body, as it does with all remains within its depths, but the clock began ticking as soon as the body was exposed to air, and Nora and the museum staff must step in quickly to preserve the body. As they draw closer to the truth, Nora and Cormac must exercise the utmost caution to avoid becoming the next victims of a ruthless killer fixated on the gruesome notion of triple death.Nora Gavin is on her way to County Offaly in the Irish midlands to examine a bog body found during peat excavation, a body carrying all the signs of having suffered a triple death. Someone has come to this quagmire to sink their dreadful handiwork - and Nora soon realizes that she is being pulled deeper into the land and all it holds: the secrets to a cache of missing gold, a tumultuous love affair with archaeologist Cormac Maguire, and the dark mysteries and desires of the workers at the site.
As with all the artifacts culled from its prehistoric depths, the bog has effectively preserved the dead man's remains - his multiple wounds suggest he was the victim of an ancient pagan sacrifice known as "triple death." But signs of a more recent slaying emerge when a second body, bearing a similar wound pattern, is found - this one sporting a wristwatch. American pathologist Nora Gavin has come to the Irish midlands to examine a body unearthed at a desolate spot known as the Lake of Sorrows.
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