![]() ![]() ![]() “It is difficult to find words to capture the masterful achievement that is Val McDermid's The Grave Tattoo.” - Laura Lippman “Val McDermid at her very best.” - Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Company Man “A world-class crime novelist at the top of her game.” - George Pelecanos, author of Hard Revolution Suddenly Jane is at the heart of a 200-year-old mystery that still has the power to put lives on the line. But as she pursues each new lead, death follows hard on her heels. 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. ![]() And once there, what if he could tell 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? For centuries, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian, made infamous by Mutiny on the Bounty, staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. Bounty.Īfter torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, a long-disregarded old wives' tale takes on a chilling new plausibility. ![]() In The Grave Tattoo, suspense master Val McDermid spins a psychological thriller in which a present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the H.M.S. ![]()
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