Do you have one of those favourite authors, that you know is still writing, and you simply cannot resist their books when they arrived.
Louise Welsh is one of those for me and I was really really pleased to see NAMING THE BONES show up.
From the Blurb:
Knee-deep in the mud of an ancient burial ground, a winter storm raging around him, and at least one person intent on his death: how did Murray Watson end up here?
Opening Lines:
Murray Watson slit the seal on the cardboard box in front of him and started to sort through the remnants of a life.
Knee-deep in the mud of an ancient burial ground, a winter storm raging around him, and at least one person intent on his death: how did Murray Watson end up here?
His quiet life researching the lives of writers in university libraries seems a world apart, and yet it is because of the mysterious poet Archie Lunan, dead for thirty years, that Murray now finds himself scrabbling in the dirt on the remote island of Lismore.