Book Review: Bog Queen by Anna North
This post contains affiliate links, which means that we’ll earn a small commission if you make a purchase through these links. “A colony of moss does not experience emotions like fondness or intimacy, but if it did, it might say this: We held her. We kept her safe under the surface, in our bath of earth, for many times her lifespan. That we give her up now may seem to be purely random, an accident of excavation. In fact, the hour of her service is at hand.” 📚 After a bog body is unearthed in northwest England, American forensic anthropologist Agnes is called in to investigate. Unlike any body she’s examined before, this one is almost entirely preserved, and the bones indicate it was buried during the Iron Age, more than two thousand years ago. What was the woman’s story, how did she die, and how did she come to be entombed beneath the peat? To solve this ancient mystery, Agnes must excavate the bog and exhume whatever artifacts remain. The stakes are sky-high, as standing in her way a...
