false 91482 23 In a novel reminiscent of <i>The Rule of Four</i>, <i>The Dante Club</i> and <i>The Historian</i>, suspense master McDermid spins a psychological thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the <i>H.M.S. Bounty</i>. After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, long discarded old wives' tales takes on a chilling new plausibility. For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. 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. 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. But as she pursues each new lead, death follows hard on her heels. Suddenly Jane is at the heart of a 200-year-old mystery that still has the power to put lives on the line. Against the dramatic backdrop of England's Lake District a drama of life and death plays out, its ultimate prize a bounty worth millions. 947522 2006 The Grave Tattoo total:369|5:50|4:126|3:145|2:39|1:9| 369 1276 540 84 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 12:37:02 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 12:37:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 05 03:39:25 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 03:41:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jan 13 19:18:19 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 19:18:59 -0800 2009 Jane Gresham is a Wordsworth scholar. There has been a rumor that she has heard since childhood that Fletcher Christian, of “Mutiny on the Bounty” fame, made his way back to England, and that Wordsworth aided him in staying hidden and not arrested ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 10:16:04 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 10:37:42 -0700 2009 The Grave Tattoo was Val McDermid writing a pastiche of Reginald Hill parodying The Da Vinci Code.

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Jane Gresham, spécialiste du poète William Wordsworth, pense aussitôt à une légende locale : Fletcher Christian, le chef des mutins du Bounty, a...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 08:25:44 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 08:37:34 -0700 2008 A Place of Execution and thought it was an astoundingly brilliant mystery. I then devoured a few more of her non-series novels ... A Distant Echo was pretty good-ish. Anything else I read failed to make much of an impression. So when I saw this one at the library ...more...]]> 2 0 true true Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 07:39:42 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 10 14:26:21 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 18:52:12 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 09 19:28:51 -0700 2008 The Grave Tattoo has taught me the value of actually looking at the back cover before plunging into a book, even if you've already read work by the author. I went blithely into reading this book thinking it would be another Dr. Tony Hill mystery, one of suspense and murders so skin-crawlingl...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 19:14:09 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 19:27:24 -0700 2008
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