Reading Pat McIntosh's The Rough Collier, the fifth in her medieval Gil Cunningham Murder Mystery series, it occurred to me that this was the third crime novel with a "bog body" as a plot device that I had read in recent months. Bernard Knight's Grounds for Appeal has a corpse turn up in a Welsh bog. In Elly Griffiths's first Ruth Galloway Mystery, Crossing Places, an Iron Age body is uncovered in a Norfolk marsh.
I had to wonder how many murder mystery novels featured bodies, recent or ancient, in bogs. (Enough for a display?) After some searches this afternoon, I have found enough to make a list, but not enough for a display, unless as a subset of mysteries featuring mummified corpses of all kinds. I suppose there must be lots of mysteries with Egyptian mummies, and possibly some set in the American Southwest, but I haven't checked.
Ashford, Lindsay - Death Studies
Bolton, S. J. - Sacrifice
Brodgen, James - Hekla's Children (2017)
Connolly, Sheila - Buried in a Bog (2013)
Dunne, Patrick - A Carol for the Dead
Griffiths, Elly - The Crossing Places
Hart, Erin - Haunted Ground, Lake of Sorrows, The Book of Killowen
Kenyon, Michael - Peckover and the Bog Man
Knight, Bernard - Grounds for Appeal
Lewis, Roy - Dead Secret
May, Peter - The Lewis Man
McIntosh, Pat - The Rough Collier
Melton, Nina - In the Moors (A Shaman Mystery)
Page, Katherine Hall - The Body in the Bog
Rickman, Phil - The Man in the Moss
Skerrett, Judith - Kael: The body in the bog
Talbot, Michael - The Bog
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