The Blood Dimmed Tide
by Anthony Quinn
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Pub Date Apr 01 2015 | Archive Date Mar 02 2015
Trafalgar Square Publishing | Oldcastle Books
Description
An Irish Shadow of the Wind, with sub-plots involving espionage, romance, hauntings, literary preoccupations, a violent war, and a corrupt and murderous police force. Move over Nordic Noir—the Irish are coming.
London at the dawn of 1918 and Ireland's most famous literary figure, W.B. Yeats, is immersed in supernatural investigations at his Bloomsbury rooms. Haunted by the restless spirit of an Irish girl whose body is mysteriously washed ashore in a coffin, Yeats undertakes a perilous journey back to Ireland with his apprentice ghost-catcher Charles Adams to piece together the killer's identity. Surrounded by spies, occultists, and diehard female rebels, the two are led on a gripping journey along Ireland's wild Atlantic coast, through the ruins of its abandoned estates, and into its darkest, most haunted corners. Falling under the spell of dark forces, Yeats and his ghost-catcher come dangerously close to crossing the invisible line that divides the living from the dead.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781843444664 |
| PRICE | $9.99 (USD) |
Average rating from 11 members
Featured Reviews
Nikkia A, Reviewer
Good gothic mystery. You gotta love these types of books to really appreciate this one because there is almost a whole genre of the type of book whereas the author picks some literary figure and makes them the philosophical mentor. Great descriptions of Ireland and liked Yeats poetry interwoven into the novel.
Sarah-Hope P, Educator
I’ve always enjoyed mystery novels featuring literary characters. The Blood Dimmed Tide presents an interesting variation on that genre: literary character as paranormal investigator. In this case the character is W. B. Yeats. It’s 1918, World War I seems to be consuming an entire generation of young men, and the Irish independence movement is turning violent. Yeats is trying to balance his varying loyalties to the Crown and to his native Ireland.
This setting makes the book intellectually “chewy” in a way lacking for many murder-cum-literary-insights novels. The story begins in London, but quickly moves to Ireland. A young serving girl has been murdered, her body found in a two-hundred-year-old coffin floating off the Irish coast. Yeats is haunted by the girl, who inexplicably sent him a letter—a letter he didn’t receive until after her death—saying she feared for her life.
While Yeats is primarily concerned with the paranormal, most of the book’s characters are consumed by the “Irish question.” These characters include representatives of the British government in Ireland, a secret group of Irish women determined to contribute to the revolt, land owners who see an inevitable end to their generations of power, and the tenants of these land owners.
The mystery at the heart of this novel is good, not great—but the way it depicts this historical moment makes up for the lack of unanticipated plot twists.
Rosemary S, Librarian
In this fascinating story of mystery and intrigue, W. B. Yeats is consumed in the supernatural goings on at his lodgings in London in 1918. He’s convinced he’s being haunted by the spirit of an Irish girl whose body washed ashore in a coffin. Determined to uncover the truth about what is happening, Yeats travels back to Ireland with his ghost hunting assistant, Charles Adams. Together, they attempt to identify the girl, even if it means they must explore some of the darkest corners of the Emerald Isle. As much a story about the fight for Irish independence as a ghost story
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