Tora Hamilton is an outsider at her new home on the rocky, wind-swept Shetland Islands, a hundred miles from northeastern tip of Scotland. Though her husband grew up here, it's the first time he's been back in twenty years. Digging in the peat on their new property, Tora unearths a human body, at first glance a centuries-old bog body, interesting but not uncommon. But realizing that the body is in fact much newer, that the woman's heart has been cut out and that she was killed withing a few days of bearing a child, Tora, herself an obstetrician, becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to her -- even when police, her colleagues, and eventually her husband warn her against getting involved.
Reading town records and researching local lore, Tora discovers a disturbing link to ancient Shetland legend and uncovers a collection of deep, dark secrets - the kind of secrets worth killing for.
- I don't want to get too deep into the book itself because the books description already tells all the main plotlines minus a few very exciting ones.
For the reader who likes to not only read mysteries settled in the U. S. Sacrifice is an exciting and suspenseful must read with a lot of myths beautifully bound into the plot.
With its twist and turns the reader never quite figures who's the villain and how much people are really involved in the one dead body Tora discovers. It might be a whole hospital or just a few, the whole island or just a particular group of men and knowing women.
The plot is complex and can only be recommended.
S. j. Bolton will publish her second book available in the U. S. in May 2009 and. Its title is Awakening.
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Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur; 1st edition (May 27, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312381131
ISBN-13: 978-0312381134
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