Saturday, February 01, 2014

Cora Harrison's "Cross of Vengeance," the movie

Featured at My Book, The Movie: Cross of Vengeance by Cora Harrison.

The entry begins:
The Burren mysteries are set in the mid-west of Ireland bordering on the Atlantic Ocean. There are ten books so far and each feature a murder to be solved by the Judge of the area: in the case of the Burren in the early sixteenth century this was one of the O’Davoren clan, in my books it is the invented woman, Mara O’Davoren, who has qualified as a Brehon and taken over from her father.

But if ever my Burren mysteries were to be filmed then there would be two starring roles.

The first is the landscape of the Burren; that one hundred-square-mile grey limestone plateaux dotted with lakes and spiralling mountains carved out in the Second Ice Age.

On a sunny day the place is a camera man’s dream with the Atlantic light drawing silver streaks from the stone, and exquisite tiny flowers in purples, pinks, cream and yellow from the Alpine and Arctic regions, marking...[read on]
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My Book, The Movie: Cross of Vengeance.

--Marshal Zeringue