The Crossing Places
The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 1
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- 59,00 kr
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- 59,00 kr
Publisher Description
Discover one of the most popular crime series in Britain, from the bestselling author of The Stranger Diaries.
A child's bones are discovered on the windswept Norfolk marshes. Believing them to be ancient, the police call in Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist. But this is no prehistoric grave. A cold missing person case has now become a murder investigation.
'I've never before read a crime novel in which [archaeology and detection] blend as successfully as in The Crossing Places' Shots
Dr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child's bones are discovered near the site of a prehistoric henge on the north Norfolk salt marshes. Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier - or are the bones much older?
DCI Harry Nelson refuses to give up the hunt for the missing girl. Since she vanished, someone has been sending him bizarre anonymous notes about ritual sacrifice, quoting Shakespeare and the Bible. He knows that Ruth's expertise and experience could help him finally to put this case to rest.
But when a second child goes missing, Ruth finds herself in danger from a killer who knows she's getting ever closer to the truth...
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
British author Elly Griffiths tells one heck of a story. But it isn’t just the dark, deliciously twisty plot of The Crossing Places that kept us turning pages late into the night. The first book in a mystery series featuring the quirky and brilliant Ruth Galloway—an archaeologist with an uncanny knack for getting mixed up in murder investigations—features an irresistible cast of characters. We can’t wait to read more from Griffiths.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Griffiths's serviceable first mystery introduces archeologist Ruth Galloway, who leads a quiet life in a remote region of Norfolk, England, known as the Saltmarsh. When Det. Chief Insp. Harry Nelson asks for her expertise in identifying human remains found in the marsh, he's disappointed when Ruth determines they date to the Iron Age. Harry, who's been haunted for 10 years by the kidnapping of five-year-old Lucy Downey, hoped the bones could bring closure to the girl's family. Drawn into the investigation, Ruth delves deeper into Lucy's disappearance and studies the letters Harry has received over the years, presumably from the kidnapper. When another young girl goes missing, Ruth and Harry fear the cycle has begun again. With her brittle exterior and general distaste for human companionship, Ruth is a difficult heroine with whom to empathize, but the novel's archeological details and the unsettling denouement go far in making up for her prickly character.