Graham Masterton

White Bones (1)

Detective: Chief Superintendant Kate McGuire
Time.        Recent Past
Setting:      Cork
Genre:       Horror/Crime

Not a very satisfactory book. The plot begins with the discovery of eleven dismembered female skeletons on a farm   soon dated to about 1915. However an abduction and gruesome execution of a young female victim occurs with obvious links to the ancient crime. 

There is an improbable sub plot concerning McGuire's husband's dubious links with the underworld and her own use of the underworld to try and deal with it. This is all conveniently solved with an accident resulting in the death of the husband as well as the criminal fringwe he was dealing with.

The murders of the main plot appear to have a link to folk lore ritual and the summoning of a powerful spirit. Although there are some twists in the race to the climax it is largely predictable.

Rating C

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