My Lady of the Bog

Peter Hayes turns the discovery of a beautiful female cadaver into an enchanting murder mystery, ghost story, and romance. This concept is great fun, enlivened by Hayes’ brisk and handsome writing style. It’s a page-turner with a corpse we can fall in love with, runes we should have read, and a sword-hacked scholar in a carpeted study of prim, modern-day London. —New York Journal of Books