Sarah's review
The Grave Tattoo
by Val McDermid
Sarah's review
The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid
Sarah's review
rating:
recommended for: People who like historicla mysteries or the English countryside
Val McDermid is that author of the books upon which Wire in the Blood (on BBC America) is based. I am a big fan of Wire in the Blood, so I thought I would try this book. It is completely different from wire in the Blood.
Wire in the Blood is a cop drama with a forensic psychologist/profiler. It's very psychological and thriller-like. The Grave Tattoo is much more of a traditional mystery with some Lake District, William Wordsworth and modern teenage gangstaness thrown in.
Someone tramping though the Lake District, finds a 200 year old body and Jane Gresham decides that it's Fletcher Christian (of Mutiny on the Bounty fame), that Wordsworth had written an epic poem in defense of Christian and that she's going to find it and become famous, get tenure and have a career. Along the way, Jane befriends a 13 year old girl from a housing project in London and old peopel start dying.
This was a good book but McDermid's ending was little optimistic and some her her story devices ...more
Wire in the Blood is a cop drama with a forensic psychologist/profiler. It's very psychological and thriller-like. The Grave Tattoo is much more of a traditional mystery with some Lake District, William Wordsworth and modern teenage gangstaness thrown in.
Someone tramping though the Lake District, finds a 200 year old body and Jane Gresham decides that it's Fletcher Christian (of Mutiny on the Bounty fame), that Wordsworth had written an epic poem in defense of Christian and that she's going to find it and become famous, get tenure and have a career. Along the way, Jane befriends a 13 year old girl from a housing project in London and old peopel start dying.
This was a good book but McDermid's ending was little optimistic and some her her story devices ...more
