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In a book similar to The Rule of Four, The Dante Club and The Historian, suspense grasp McDermid revolves a psychological thriller by which a present-day murder has its origins in the eighteenth-century and the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty. After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, long discarded old-wives' reports takes on a relaxing new plausibility. For hundreds of years, Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn therefore that he might return home. And there, he told his tale to a classic friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth, who transformed it right into a long narrative poem--a poem that stayed concealed for harboring a fugitive lest it reveal Wordsworth to the gallows.