The Grave Tattoo

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Название:The Grave Tattoo

Автор: Val McDermid

Издательство: Minotaur Books

ISBN: 0312339216

Дата издания:2007-02-06

Страниц: 400

Язык:Английский

Формат:rtf, epub

Размер:5.00 MB

In a novel reminiscent of The Rule of Four,ВThe DanteВClubВand The Historian, suspense master McDermid spins a psychological thriller in which aВpresent-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty.ВAfter 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.