But McDermid (The Torment of Others, 2005, etc.) handles the interplay between past and present with masterful and infectious conviction.Īnother sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. The criminal is obvious and Tenille’s behavior incredible. And she doesn’t know that one of the people competing with her for the prize doesn’t mind killing to get it. She doesn’t know that Tenille Cole, a tough kid she befriended in London, has come running after her with the police in hot pursuit. She doesn’t know that she’s racing her unscrupulous ex-lover Jake Hartnell and her brother Matthew, a resentful local schoolmaster, for the poem. Despite her inside track on the connection between the sailor and the poet, however, there are some important things Jane doesn’t know. When a corpse that could be Christian’s is found in a Fellhead peat bog, Jane talks her boss into giving her two weeks off to see if she can locate any trace of a Wordsworthian Mutiny on the Bounty.
An ambitious reworking of the demi-historical mode of Possession with a mutiny substituting for one love story and a series of murders taking the place of the other.Įver since her childhood days in the Lake Country hamlet of Fellhead, Jane Gresham has wondered about the rumor that Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian escaped the slaughter at Pitcairn Island and returned to England with a tale that gave his old schoolmate William Wordsworth material for a lost epic poem. And it isn't just the truth that is waiting to be discovered, but a bounty worth millions.
The centuries-old mystery is putting lives at risk. She believes that the Lakeland poet William Wordsworth, a friend of Christian's, may have sheltered the fugitive and turned his tale into an epic poem - which has since disappeared.īut as she follows each lead, death is hard on her heels.
Could it be linked to the old rumour that Fletcher Christian, mutinous First Mate on the Bounty, had secretly returned to England? It's summer in the Lake District and heavy rain over the fells has uncovered a bizarrely tattooed body. The award-winning and Number One bestselling Val McDermid crafts an electrifying psychological suspense thriller that mixes history, heritage and heinous crimes.Ī 200 year-old-secret is now a matter of life and death.
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