WINNER OF THE 2016 CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY. A bullet-ridden body is unearthed from a buried WW2 plane - but the body isn't from WW2. Dr Ruth Galloway must discover who the victim was,and who put him there,in this atmospheric mystery for fans of Val McDermid and Ann Cleeves.'An almost gothic plot,involving family feuds and a crumbling stately home...one of the most vivid novels in a delightful series'Sunday TimesWhen DCI Harry Nelson calls Ruth Galloway in to investigate a body found inside a buried fighter plane,she quickly realizes that the skeleton couldn't possibly be the pilot. DNA tests identify the man as Fred Blackstock,a local aristocrat who had been reported dead at sea. Events are further complicated by a TV company that wants to make a film about Norfolk's deserted air force bases,the so-called Ghost Fields,which have been partially converted into a pig farm run by one of the younger remaining Blackstocks. Then human bones are found on the farm and,as the greatest storm Norfolk has seen for decades brews in the distance,another Blackstock is attacked. Can the team outrace the rising flood to find the killer
Publisher: Quercus PublishingISBN: 9781786482174Number of pages: 384Weight: 260 gDimensions: 200 x 153 x 24 mm
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Elly Griffiths writes ever-more ingenious detective stories with a powerful sense of place and a varied cast of sympathetic and unusual characters. Her heroine is a winnerGriffiths weaves superstition and myth into her crime novels,skilfully treading a line between credulity and modern methods of detectionAn almost gothic plot,involving family feuds and a crumbling stately home,makes this one of the most vivid novels in a delightful seriesThe book's salty,desolate atmosphere of endless marsh and lonely,ancient sands... achieves a shivery aura of mystery you won't soon shake,one that laces past with present in the inescapable march of timeA gentle,meandering plot with a tense ending
Elly Griffiths
Elly Griffiths is the pen-name of British author Domenica de Rosa. A former Editorial Director for children's books at Harper Collins,Griffiths published her first novel,The Italian Quarter,in 1998 under her own name. A holiday in Norfolk inspired her to write what would become the bestselling novel The Crossing Places,the first novel in the Dr Ruth Galloway series of mystery novels and Rosa's first novel as Elly Griffiths. She is also the author of the popular Stephens and Mephisto novels which began with The Zig Zag Girl.
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