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After reading Awakening by the same author, I couldn't wait to read her first book, which this was. Like Awakening, it features a highly skilled professional woman who is also a bit of an athlete and daredevil. Tora Hamilton, an obstetrician, has recently moved to her husband's native Shetland Islands with him. She is the sort of woman who, when a beloved horse dies of old age, rents a digger so that she can bury him herself. Her plans are foiled by the discovery of a human body which has been h
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I guessed a lot of the supposed twists and turns in this book, but it didn't hinder my enjoyment. A creepy tale based on the legend of the Kunal Trows, a human-like, patriarchal species with many gory secrets.
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I think this is likely my favorite of her books. It's the 10th out of 11 that I've read, and I couldn't put this down.
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