The Unquiet Grave

"Probably my favourite was The Unquiet Grave by Dervla McTiernan, with its bleak setting on a peat bog outside Galway in the west of Ireland. A body is found in the bog by a visiting German family who reassure their daughter that it dates from ancient times, and the plot takes off from there. The Unquiet Grave is the fourth book featuring police detective Cormac Reilly, and in what’s always a good sign for a crime novel, it led me to read the previous books in the series too ( The Ruin , The Scholar and The Good Turn )"