Audio Book Description:
After torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed bodyon a Lake District hillside, old wives` tales take ona chilling new plausibility.For centuries, Lakelanders havelong whispered that FletcherChristian stagedthe massacre onPitcairn so that he could return home where he told hisstory to an old friend and schoolmate, William Wordsworth, whoturned it into a long narrative poem-a poem that remained hidden lest it exposeWordsworth to the gallows for harboring a fugitive. Wordsworth specialist Jane Gresham, herself a native of the Lake District, feels compelled to discoverwhether the Wordsworth manuscript ever existed-and whether it still exists today. But as she pursues each new lead, death follows hard on her heels.Suddenly Jane is at the heart of a two hundred year old mystery that still has the power to put lives on the line. Againstthe dramatic backdrop ofEngland`s Lake District, a drama of life and death plays out...its ultimate prize a bounty worth millions.
