Bog Road

On Carraig Dubh they say the sea takes and the bog keeps.For forty years the island believed Bernadette Coll boarded the emigrant boat in a coat the colour of a robin and was swallowed by Boston, the way so many of them were. Then, on a soft April day with the whole island out cutting turf, a spade finds her a mile from her mother's door, whole as the day she went into the ground, a Claddagh ring turned the wrong way on her hand.Róise Gallagher — shopkeeper, postmistress, and the island's only nurse — has read enough bodies to know this one never saw America. And when a proud old widow is arrested for a crime she did not commit, Róise must do the hardest thing the island has ever asked of her: take a beloved name down off the finest headstone on the hill, and prove a murder against a man nine years in his grave, so that the living can go free and the dead can come home under her own true name at last.A mystery about the ones who left, the ones who were said to have left, and what a small place does with the truth when it finally comes up out of the ground.