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Book Review of A Terrible Beauty

A Terrible Beauty
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This book is not for the faint of heart. From the blurb: "On a farm in southern Ireland, the dismembered bones of eleven women are found in a common grave, buried eight decades ago. Detective Superintendent Katie Maguire is used to bloodshed, but this ivory litter of human remains is unimaginable butchery...As an eighty-year-old mystery unfolds, so does a modern-day ritual that's marked Katie Maguire as its next victim."