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eveningreader's review against another edition
2.0
I really enjoyed the first two books in the Nora Gavin series, but this one was just all over the place. It felt too much like Hart was trying to connect several story lines that never really meshed.
git_r_read's review against another edition
5.0
This is one of my favorite series. The first book, HAUNTED GROUND, was gut-wrenching and superb and I was immediately a fan. I've spread the time between each book out over the years, to savor and be in just the right mindset.
There are excellent twists and turns, winding throughout the book. Nora is still investigating her sister's murder, she knows her brother-in-law is guilty but the evidence is practically nonexistent.
The murder haunts her in the first two books, she's lived and worked in Ireland the last three years to work through everything.
She returns to the US to take up the investigation again.
There are so many points of view and stories that make up this book. And they are all necessary. Each one is interwoven with the other one or another, even without the characters being near or knowing each other.
To go into more detail would be to spoil the story. Know that it is superb even if it took me a bit to get into the story in the beginning. This isn't Nora the pathologist studying the bog bodies in Ireland...this is Nora the avenging sister and she is a force to be reckoned with.
I can definitely recommend this book, series and author.
There are excellent twists and turns, winding throughout the book. Nora is still investigating her sister's murder, she knows her brother-in-law is guilty but the evidence is practically nonexistent.
The murder haunts her in the first two books, she's lived and worked in Ireland the last three years to work through everything.
She returns to the US to take up the investigation again.
There are so many points of view and stories that make up this book. And they are all necessary. Each one is interwoven with the other one or another, even without the characters being near or knowing each other.
To go into more detail would be to spoil the story. Know that it is superb even if it took me a bit to get into the story in the beginning. This isn't Nora the pathologist studying the bog bodies in Ireland...this is Nora the avenging sister and she is a force to be reckoned with.
I can definitely recommend this book, series and author.
alibi313's review against another edition
3.0
Admittedly a fun and fast read, but as it drew to a close I found it overly complicated and filled with too much plot resolution reliant upon magic and lucky coincidence.
msseviereads's review against another edition
4.0
I enjoyed the sense of place that the author inserted so strongly in this book. I haven't read any other Nora Gavin books, but would look for them in the future. Great mystery, suspense book.
kelsey24's review against another edition
2.0
I didn't realize this was the third book in a series, so I may have missed a lot of important background information. Overall, this was an intriguing book BUT I found it highly unrealistic. Trying to solve a murder from 5+ years ago, the amount of "new" evidence they just easily stumbled upon was unrealistic, especially when it came to DNA evidence that had been worn every day for 5+ years but still somehow managed to have uncontaminated DNA? Easily finding a murder victim that had disappeared 100+ years ago and walking through their house to find everything undisturbed for that long?
I also found it very transphobic in the last 20 pages or so. There was absolutely no reason at all to include that random aspect, except to demonize trans people and those that aren't 100% straight. Very disappointing and unnecessary.
I also found it very transphobic in the last 20 pages or so. There was absolutely no reason at all to include that random aspect, except to demonize trans people and those that aren't 100% straight. Very disappointing and unnecessary.
bgg616's review against another edition
4.0
The story is good but DON"T choose the audiobook.I hated the narration. The main character is an American who works in Ireland. Two-thirds of the story takes place in the US but the narrator who is British (Rosalyn Landor) chose to read the book in an over-the-top stage Irish accent (kind of a Kerry accent). So, so annoying. She mispronounces Irish names and place names, her reading of Irish (Gaelic) at the beginning is atrocious, the name Triona should be pronounced tree-nuh not tree-own-a (like Fiona) and Glencomlumkille is not pronounced glen-cawl-um-killy. Her male characters all sound like grumpy old men even when they are teenagers. Her children's voices are even worse, if that's possible. She over dramatizes every scene. Sorry to rant and I think there are probably many listeners who are less fussy. If i could give the audiobook less than 1 star, I would. I will avoid anything by this narrator in the future. Her inability to convincingly differentiate voices of different ages and genders ruins the listening experience.
The story is good, but read it rather than listen to the audiobook.
The story is good, but read it rather than listen to the audiobook.
katymvt's review against another edition
5.0
Good page turner. Probably would actually put it somewhere between a 4 and a 5.
katkfern's review against another edition
4.0
I love me a good crime novel! Took me a bit to wade through - the writing was heavier than I’m used to, but enjoyable nonetheless. The way so many character’s POV’s were included and interwoven had me wondering the whole time whodunnit, and I have to say my guess changed many a time throughout. And I LOVED the Irish folklore woven throughout. Beautiful!