Lake of Sorrows

American forensic pathologist Nora Gavin has been called to an archaeological site west of Dublin to assist at an excavation where a well-preserved Iron Age body has been found buried in a peat bog." "How many hundreds or thousands of years ago was the man killed? Was his a ritual death, some kind of human sacrifice? These academic questions are intriguing, but of much more urgent interest is the second body found nearby - of a man wearing a wristwatch, hardly an Iron Age accessory. But his corpse does show strange similarities to that of his ancient counterpart. Both bodies bear signs of "triple death," a primitive practice in which a victim was ritually slain three ways. Nora and archaeologist Cormac Maguire, embroiled in a love affair, must team up again professionally, and are soon enmeshed in the web of desires and secrets that surround this untimely death.