One wet November morning, a field on Meagher's Farm gives up the
dismembered bones of eleven women. In this part of Ireland, unmarked
graves are common. But these bones date to 1915, long before the
Troubles. What's more, these bones bear the marks of a meticulous
executioner. These women were almost certainly skinned alive.
Detective Katie Maguire, of the Cork Garda, is used to dead bodies.
But this is wholesale butchery. Her team think these long-dead women
are a waste of police time. Katie is determined to give them justice.
And then a young American tourist goes missing, and her bones,
carefully stripped of flesh, are discovered on the same farm. With
the crimes of the past echoing in the present, Katie must solve a
decades-old ritualistic murder before this terrifying killer strikes again.
Published in America under the title A Terrible Beauty, White Bones
marks Katie Maguire's UK debut.
