Val McDermid, The Grave Tattoo (HarperCollins 2006)
Thursday, 1. January 2009, 21:52:52
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This story is not a hardboiled, psychological Tony Hill & Carol Jordan thriller but a rather delightful cock-and-bull tale. An old bog find, nicknamed “Pirate Peat”, crops up in the Lake District and the main character, Wordsworth scholar Jane Gresham, believes this may be the (in)famous mutineer Fletcher Christian who led the munity onboard HMS Bounty in 1789. Thus a search for evidence (and a hitherto unknown poem written by William Wordsworth!) can begin. Later a London gangsta and his poetry-loving teenage daughter are also involved in the chase while the death tally in the countryside grows alarmingly.
Incredible yarn? Well, yes, but reasonably well-written, light entertainment - and infinitely more realistic than Dan Browńs “The Da Vinci Code”, in my humble opinion.
This story is not a hardboiled, psychological Tony Hill & Carol Jordan thriller but a rather delightful cock-and-bull tale. An old bog find, nicknamed “Pirate Peat”, crops up in the Lake District and the main character, Wordsworth scholar Jane Gresham, believes this may be the (in)famous mutineer Fletcher Christian who led the munity onboard HMS Bounty in 1789. Thus a search for evidence (and a hitherto unknown poem written by William Wordsworth!) can begin. Later a London gangsta and his poetry-loving teenage daughter are also involved in the chase while the death tally in the countryside grows alarmingly.
Incredible yarn? Well, yes, but reasonably well-written, light entertainment - and infinitely more realistic than Dan Browńs “The Da Vinci Code”, in my humble opinion.
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