Detective Superintendent Katie Maguire has been called out to a farm
where the skeletons of several people have been discovered where a new
foundation is being excavated. The pathology team discover something
weird, a doll-like figure attached to the thigh bones. Is it a mass
execution or individual burials? And, why are the bones all jumbled
about?
Dr. Reidy, the pathologist, informs Maguire that the bones have been
buried for quite some time. They are all female and the flesh was
scraped off of the bones. Does this suggest cannibalism? Possibly.
Maguire is given an oral history of the killings which occurred back
just prior to the Easter Uprising. She sets DI Liam Fennessy to
researching the missing women and also checking if they might have any
living relatives for DNA comparisons. Further research points to an
ancient cult. Despite being told that the case is shelved due to its
age, and being handed another more current one to attend to, Maguire
continues to work on the case.
It isn't long after this that the same farmer makes a grisly discovery.
A body that has been mutilated in the same manner, with body parts
being attacked by crows. It doesn't take long to identify the victim,
and her track through Ireland up until she disappeared. Now to find the
killer.
Seemingly to have caught the killer, Maguire is hesitant to announce that they have him when another girl goes missing.
Author Graham Masterton has written an horrifying murder mystery. Just
when you think you know who the killer is, another potential suspect is
presented. I had selected this book on the basis of it being a murder mystery, but after reading it, I realise that it really is a book of the horror genre. This is not a book for the squeamish.
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