A review by slferg
Buried in a Bog by Sheila Connolly

4.0

Maura Donovan has a problem. Her grandmother has died and left her a note saying she wants her to go to Ireland where her grandmother grew up. Maura has no family in America and her grandmother has always wanted her to go visit. After everything is settled, there is enough money set aside for a plane ticket and she finds a packet of letters her grandmother has saved from an old friend she has been corresponding with. So she writes to inform the friend of her grandmother's death and her wish that she would visit. She is promptly asked to come visit. Maura has lost her job, her landlord has informed her he is selling the apartment she and her grandmother lived in to a developer who is turning it into a condo. With no prospects and no home, there's nowhere for her to go but Ireland. So, she does and begins to settle in. Visiting the pub across from where she is staying, she finds the manager's daughter behind the bar overwhelmed by customers so she offers to help since she has worked in bars before. The pub is so busy because everyone is talking about a body discovered in a bog. They don't know yet if it's hundreds of years old or more recent. She wants to help Rose, who seems to be stuck at home running the pub and looking after her dad. Also, she is spending time visiting with her gran's old friend and finding out about the life her grandmother never spoke of. Her friend's grandson is an interesting to her as well as several others about the small village. And someone has tried to run her off the road. Why? Who has she upset in the short time she's been there?