Paperbark Book Club: June Session with Dervla McTiernan

Join Paperbark Merchants in-conversation with Dervla McTiernan (via zoom) to discuss her latest novel, The Unquiet Grave.

For years the boglands of Northern Europe have given up bodies that are thousands of years old, uncannily preserved. Bodies with strange injuries that suggest ritual torture and human sacrifice.

When a corpse is found in a bog in Galway, Cormac Reilly assumes the find is historical. But closer examination reveals that the dead man is Thaddeus Grey, a local secondary school principal who disappeared two years prior.

At first, progress on the case is frustratingly slow and Cormac struggles to keep his mind on the job. His ex-girlfriend, Emma Sweeney, is in trouble – her new husband has gone missing in Paris, and the French police are refusing to open an investigation into his disappearance.

Cormac is sure that he has found Grey’s killer, and is within hours of an arrest, when…