Sacrifice (Nevernight Chronicle, #11)

by Sharon Bolton and S J Bolton

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.

• ISBN10: 0312381131
• ISBN13: 9780312381134
• Publish Date: 27 May 2008 (first published 4 February 2008)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 22 July 2015
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Minotaur Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 379
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

When Tora Hamilton goes to bury her horse (illegally) she uncovers a body, the body of a young woman who has recently given birth to a child with Norse runes carved into her back. While she investigates she's not sure who to trust and the tentacles of power reach very far into the community.

Interesting but occasionally felt a bit strained.