Tomb for an Eagle (Orkneyinga Murders Book 1) by Lexie Conyngham – Review by Alexandria Richard

Tomb for an Eagle by Lexie Conyngham
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4 star Christian-Viking era murder mystery. Wonderful new take on the genre

First in a series. Here we’re introduced to Ketil, Sigrid, and everyone else in the village of Buckquoy.

Ketil comes to town with secrets to tell and to hide. Is he friend or foe? What does he have to do with the body Sigrid, a widowed villager, found hidden on her land? Is this the past come back to haunt them?

A very interesting take on timepiece murder mystery. I was only able to “sort of” enjoy this murder mystery. I found it difficult to immerse myself in a time period novel with a culture I’m mostly unfamiliar with. I found myself skipping over names and items, or having to step away from the story to look them up, because I didn’t know what they were. This caused the first quarter-to-third of the book to be a very slow read. Once I was able to get an understanding of the time, community, and culture, I found the novel to be very interesting.

This book also touches upon the idea of when old meets new in terms of the religious aspect of the time, but it is easy to correlate that to todays time and what’s going on around us, should you wish to go that deep.

Thoroughly enjoyed the murder mystery aspect and the “detective” work that Ketil does while rediscovering himself and his relationship with Sigrid along the way.

Cw: graphic descriptions of a murdered and mutilated body, domestic violence, violence against women.

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