wyvernfriend
When the extension to a barn means that bodies are found, well skeletons, and all the bodies are dismembered and have dolls threaded through the leg bones. They date back to the early 20th Century. Then more remains are found, modern remains and they can't discount ritual.
The investigator is Detective Katie Maguire, a garda based in Cork and whose marriage is floundering and life is crumbling and things are only going to get worse.
Oh man, that was complicated and messy and I found it quite horrific, but I also found the attitude to the main female character was a bit un-modern, while I know it can be hard to be in charge while female this was set in this decade and it felt earlier.
very creepy and plausible.