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One reviewer said "Erin Hart does for Galway what Sharyn McCrumb did for Appalachia." The book was excellent -- a complex but logical plot, interesting characters and interpersonal relationships, and a beautiful locale, all conveyed with nice use of language and image. I will definitely look for her second and subsequent books in what I understand will be a series.

I really enjoyed this book. She has written another book in this series, Lake of Sorrows. I am anxiously awaiting her 3rd novel...I've been to her website & she says she is working on it.

I tried so hard to get through this book. The reviews for this book were encouraging, and the back cover blurb made this sound like my ideal story. I read 120 pages before I gave up. I couldn't have cared less about the characters, and the 120 pages I read dealt mostly with their personal baggage. I thought it was supposed to be a mystery...

I liked this book. I enjoyed reading about Ireland, especially the old music and the culture of people who lived around the bogs. I liked tv shows about forensic science and I also like archaeology and this book had both, so it was fun to read about their techniques. The ending was a surprise to me. Looking forward to reading the second book.

This book was really good. I enjoyed it enough to read the follow up, and will read the thrid as well. The main characters were vivid and interesting, and not your typical, cookie-cutter romantic pair, which was refreshing--they came across realistically where every action they took didn't seem like part of some master scheme to push them together in the last few pages. The plot kept me intrigued to the very end. My only complaints about the book were the yawning passages of descriptions. Every inch of every setting was described in minute detail, and there's a lot of medical and technical jargon thrown in that, unless you're a medical examiner or other medical professional (or, I suppose, if you watch a lot of CSI), won't make much sense to you. That didn't really deter me from enjoying the book (I did, after all, immediately pick up the sequel), but I did skim through several passages that were heavy on the medical terminology or lengthy scenery descriptions. I am not anti-descriptions. Some of my favorite authors slip huge passages of descriptions into their novels, which I love. Hart's descriptions came across as very clinical and dry to me, though. This is one of the rare times when I wished for more action, less chatter.

Well told story and suspenseful. An enjoyable read!