FALSE MERMAID by Erin Hart - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK

American pathologist Nora Gavin
fled to Ireland three years ago, hoping that distance from home would
bring her peace. Though she threw herself into the study of bog bodies
and the mysteries of their circumstances, she was ultimately led back to
the one mystery she was unable to solve: the murder of her sister,
Tríona. Nora can’t move forward until she goes back—back to her home, to
the scene of the crime, to the source of her nightmares and her deepest
regrets.

Determined to put her sister’s
case to rest and anxious about her eleven-year-old niece, Elizabeth,
Nora returns to Saint Paul, Minnesota, to find that her brother-in-law,
Peter Hallett, is about to remarry and has plans to leave the country
with his new bride. Nora has long suspected Hallett in Tríona’s murder,
though there has never been any proof of his involvement, and now she
believes that his new wife and Elizabeth may both be in danger. Time is
short, and as Nora begins reinvestigating her sister’s death, missed
clues and ever-more disturbing details come to light. What is the
significance of the "false mermaid" seeds found on Tríona’s body? Why
was her behavior so erratic in the days before her murder?

Is there a link between Tríona’s death and that of another young woman?

Nora’s search for answers takes
her from the banks of the Mississippi to the cliffs of Ireland, where
the eerie story of a fisherman’s wife who vanished more than a century
ago offers up uncanny parallels. As painful secrets come to light, Nora
is drawn deeper into a past that still threatens to engulf her and must
determine how much she is prepared to sacrifice to put one tragedy to
rest . . . and to make sure that history doesn’t repeat itself.