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Erin lives in Saint Paul with her husband, Irish musician Paddy O'Brien ( ), and travels frequently to Ireland. in English and Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota. A Minnesota theater critic, a former communications director of the Minnesota State Arts Board, and a founder of the Twin Cities Irish Music & Dance Association, Hart received an M.A. THE BOOK OF KILLOWEN is due out in March 2013. LAKE OF SORROWS (2004) was shortlisted for a Minnesota Book Award, and FALSE MERMAID (2010) was named by ALA/Booklist as one of the Top Ten Crime Novels of 2010.

She introduced pathologist Nora Gavin in one of the most lauded mystery debuts of 2003: HAUNTED GROUND (2003), was a Booksense 76 pick, won the Friends of American Writers award and Romantic Times' Best First Mystery, was shortlisted for Anthony and Agatha awards, and translated into ten foreign languages. Meticulously crafted and resonating with traditional music and folklore, Haunted Ground celebrates Ireland's turbulent history, revealing the eternal, subliminal connections between past and present in a riveting novel that heralds the arrival of a bright new crime-writing star.ĮRIN HART'S archaeological crime novels are set in the mysterious boglands of Ireland. Devaney's superiors want him off the Osborne case. Did Mina simply decide to disappear, or did mother and child become lost in the treacherous bog? Could they, too, be hidden in its depths, only to be discovered centuries from now? Or did the landowner, Hugh Osborne, murder his family, as some villagers suspect?īracklyn House, Osborne's stately home, holds many secrets for Nora and Cormac and policeman Garrett Devaney. Two years earlier, Mina Osborne, the local landowner's Indian-born wife, went for a walk with her young son and never returned. Still, her tale may have shocking ties to the present, and Cormac and Nora must use cutting-edge techniques to preserve ancient evidence.Īnd the red-haired girl is not the only enigma in this remote corner of Galway. The red-haired girl is clearly a case for the archaeologists, not the police. Who is she? When was she killed? The extraordinary find leads to even more disturbing puzzles. Peat bogs prevent decay, so the decapitated young woman could have been buried for two decades, two centuries, or even much longer. When farmers cutting turf in a peat bog make a grisly discovery - the perfectly preserved severed head of a young woman with long red hair - Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gavin team up in a case that will open old wounds. Introducing Erin Hart, who brings the beauty, poignancy, mystery, and romance of the Irish countryside to her richly nuanced first novel. A dazzling debut - already an international publishing sensation - combining forensics, history, archaeology, and suspense.

Haunted Ground by Erin Hart