Hart is best known for writing a series of novels set mostly in Ireland and featuring pathologist Nora Gavin and archaeologist Cormac Maguire, who are engaged in the recovery of artifacts and human remains from Irish boglands. Hart lives in Saint Paul with her husband, Irish accordion player Paddy O'Brien, creator of the Paddy O'Brien Tune Collection: A Personal Treasury of Irish Traditional Music, and author of a 2012 memoir, The Road From Castlebarnagh: Growing Up In Irish Music. She also served as the on-air theater critic for Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning program. She also worked as a freelance journalist, contributing theater reviews and arts features at the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minnesota Monthly, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and Skyway News, among other publications. Hart's early career was in arts administration, at the Affiliated Arts Agencies of the Upper Midwest, now Arts Midwest, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She attended high school in Rochester, where she was involved in music and theater. She is the daughter of Robert Hart, a mechanical engineer, and Nancy VanSteenhuyse Hart, a medical laboratory technician. Hart was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and raised in Rochester, Minnesota. Mayo High School, Saint Olaf College, University of Minnesotaįriends of American Writers, RWA Best First MysteryĮrin Hart (born September 1, 1958) is an American author of crime fiction. As they draw closer to the truth, Nora and Cormac must exercise the utmost caution to avoid becoming the next victims of a ruthless killer fixated on the gruesome notion of triple death.Erin Hart at Lake Inchiquin outside Corofin, County Clare, Ireland

Someone has come to this quagmire to sink their dreadful handiwork-and Nora soon realizes that she is being pulled deeper into the land and all it holds: the secrets to a cache of missing gold, a tumultuous love affair with archaeologist Cormac Maguire, and the dark mysteries and desires of the workers at the site. As with all the artifacts culled from its prehistoric depths, the bog has effectively preserved the dead man's remains-his multiple wounds suggest he was the victim of an ancient pagan sacrifice known as 'triple death.' But signs of a more recent slaying emerge when a second body, bearing a similar wound pattern, is found-this one sporting a wristwatch. A magnificent tale of death and destiny, past and present, in an Ireland rich with tradition, myth, and mystery: ' Lake of Sorrows has a heft and richness uncommon in contemporary suspense novels' ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune).Īmerican pathologist Nora Gavin has come to the Irish midlands to examine a body unearthed at a desolate spot known as the Lake of Sorrows.

Lake of sorrows by erin hart