Sacrifice

Even though her husband grew up here, Tora Hamilton is an outsider at her new home on the Shetland Islands. Digging on their property, Tora unearths a human body — at first glance a centuries-old bog body, not uncommon. Then Tora realizes that the body is much newer, that the woman’s heart had been cut out, and that she was killed within days of bearing a child. Herself an obstetrician, Tora becomes obsessed with finding out what happened…

Even though her husband grew up here, Tora Hamilton is an outsider at her new home on the Shetland Islands. Digging on their property, Tora unearths a human body — at first glance a centuries-old bog body, not uncommon. Then Tora realizes that the body is much newer, that the woman’s heart had been cut out, and that she was killed within days of bearing a child. Herself an obstetrician, Tora becomes obsessed with finding out what happened…