The House at Sea's End

The third novel in the Ruth Galloway series

A team of archaeologists investigating coastal erosion unearths six bodies buried at the foot of a cliff on the windswept Norfolk coast, and forensics expert Ruth Galloway is immediately put on the case. Tests show that the bodies have lain hidden in the sand for fifty or sixty years. Further discovery reveals that members of the local wartime Home Guard may have been concealing a hideous crime for decades. Then, when a body washes up on the beach, Ruth and DCI Harry Nelson, the chief investigator on the case, realize that someone still alive will murder to keep hidden the gruesome secrets of the war years.

Brimming with fascinating forensic detail, action-packed scenes of terror, and one of the most engaging casts of characters to have appeared in crime fiction, The House at Sea’s End is a brilliantly plotted, tense, and thrilling mystery.