false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179340530m/905451.jpg 905451 10 <P> <B>A dazzling debut -- already an international publishing sensation -- combining forensics, history, archaeology, and suspense.</B> <P><BR> Introducing Erin Hart, who brings the beauty, poignancy, mystery, and romance of the Irish countryside to her richly nuanced first novel. <P> When farmers cutting turf in a peat bog make a grisly discovery -- the perfectly preserved severed head of a young woman with long red hair -- Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin team up in a case that will open old wounds. <P> Peat bogs prevent decay, so the decapitated young woman could have been buried for two decades, two centuries, or even much longer. Who is she? When was she killed? The extraordinary find leads to even more disturbing puzzles. The red-haired girl is clearly a case for the archaeologists, not the police. Still, her tale may have shocking ties to the present, and Cormac and Nora must use cutting-edge techniques to preserve ancient evidence. <P> And the red-haired girl is not the only enigma in this remote corner of Galway. Two years earlier, Mina Osborne, the local landowner's Indian-born wife, went for a walk with her young son and never returned. Did Mina simply decide to disappear, or did mother and child become lost in the treacherous bog? Could they, too, be hidden in its depths, only to be discovered centuries from now? Or did the landowner, Hugh Osborne, murder his family, as some villagers suspect? <P> Bracklyn House, Osborne's stately home, holds many secrets for Nora and Cormac and policeman Garrett Devaney. But time is running out. Devaney's superiors want him off the Osborne case. Now. He wants to stay and find a killer. <P> Meticulously crafted and resonating with traditional music and folklore, <I>Haunted Ground</I> celebrates Ireland's turbulent history, revealing the eternal, subliminal connections between past and present in a riveting novel that heralds the arrival of a bright new crime-writing star. 240718 29 4 2003 Haunted Ground: A Novel total:367|5:63|4:169|3:99|2:33|1:3| 367 1357 565 83 5 5 false false Sun Apr 20 16:55:17 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 16:55:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 03 12:22:40 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 15:45:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Feb 12 09:18:32 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 16 16:51:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Tue Jan 22 12:42:11 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 22 12:42:11 -0800 2008
Erin Hart's first novel, Haunted Ground, shows some of the hallmarks of a first novel, but fortunately sheds them as the pages turn, and we end up with quite a fine read here. If you picked this up and couldn't get past the first few pages, press...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 17:52:03 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 14:18:10 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 07:29:50 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 17:16:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 12 08:48:23 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 08:48:44 -0800 2009
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When a well-preserved female human head is found in a bog in Ireland,Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin set out to discov...more...]]> 4 0 false true Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 13:48:24 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 03:48:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 26 07:45:41 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 07:47:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 15:22:54 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 15:29:16 -0700 2009 4 0 true false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sun Dec 28 10:20:31 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 15:16:32 -0800 2008 1 3 0 false false Sat Feb 28 17:01:34 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 17:02:35 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=905451