Lake of Sorrows

Erin M. Hart

Jul 2004 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Jennifer McMahon

About this audiobook

In this gripping follow-up to her sensational debut, Haunted Ground, Erin Hart delves into Ireland's mysterious peat bogs to create a stunning tale of deception and murder. Pathologist Nora Gavin arrives at a desolate industrial site in the Irish midlands, a place known as the Lake of Sorrows, where workers have just unearthed a long-buried body. But moments after her arrival a much more recent victim is discovered. Like the ancient body, the new corpse bears multiple wounds, suggesting the ritual sacrifice of Ireland's blood-soaked pagan past. Nora and archaeologist Cormac Maguire, caught up in a tumultuous love affair, must team up again professionally, and are soon enmeshed in the web of tangled desires and terrible secrets that surround this mysterious death. Illicit liaisons, rumors of ancient gold and vengeance fuel the mounting danger.

About the author

Erin Hart was born in Indiana and raised in Minnesota. She attended Saint Olaf College and the University of Minnesota and worked as an arts journalist for a time before turning to fiction, memoir, and essay. Her debut novel, Haunted Ground, won the Romantic Times Best First Mystery Award and the Friends of American Writers Award, and was also nominated for the Anthony and Agatha Awards. Her other works include Lake of Sorrows, False Mermaid, and The Book of Killowen. She lives in Minnesota.

Jennifer McMahon is the author of nine novels, including the New York Times bestsellers The Winter People and Promise Not to Tell. She graduated from Goddard College and studied poetry in the MFA writing program at Vermont College.