The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
I've not read any of McDermid's work before but apparently this is a change in direction from her usual contemporary crime fiction. The murder victim in this book is a bog body and may even be that of Fletcher Christian. This leads Jane (a William Wordsworth expert) on a search for a possible missing Wordsworth poem linking Christian and Wordsworth as friends and proving that Christian secretly returned to England rather than dying on Pitcairn. Of course the poem, if found, is priceless and so other less scrupulous people get in on the search with the result that people start to die...



This was a fast-paced and absorbing read.


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