New York : Minotaur Books, 2009.

©2008

379 pages ; 21 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-380).

Tora Hamilton is an outsider at her new home on the rocky, wind-swept Shetland Islands, a hundred miles from the northeastern tip of Scotland. Though her husband grew up here, it's the first time he's been back in twenty years. Digging in the peat on their new property, Tora unearths a human body, at first glance a centuries-old bog body, interesting but not uncommon. But realizing that the body is in fact much newer, that the woman's heart has been cut out and that she was killed within a few days of bearing a child, Tora, herself an obstetrician, becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to her--even when the police, her colleagues and eventually her husband warn her against getting involved.

Women surgeons -- Fiction.

Women -- Crimes against -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Legends -- Scotland -- Shetland -- Fiction.

Human sacrifice -- Scotland -- Shetland -- Fiction.

Shetland (Scotland) -- Fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Mystery fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Human sacrifice.

Legends.

Murder -- Investigation.

Suspense fiction.

Women -- Crimes against.

Women surgeons.

Scotland -- Shetland.

Fiction.

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