A gruesome discovery at an old children's home lays bare terrible secret's from Norwich's past in the second gripping mystery for Dr Ruth Galloway.'The setting is enticingly atmospheric...a really intelligent murder story'IndependentDr Ruth Galloway's forensic skills are called upon when builders,demolishing an old house in Norwich,uncover the bones of a child - minus the skull - beneath a doorway. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder Ruth links up with DCI Harry Nelson to investigate. The house was once a children's home. Nelson traces the Catholic priest who used to run the place. He tells him that two children did go missing forty years before - a boy and a girl. They were never found. When carbon dating proves that the child's bones predate the home and relate to a time when the house was privately owned,Ruth is drawn ever more deeply into the case. But as spring turns into summer it becomes clear that someone is desperate to put her off the scent by frightening her to death...
Publisher: Quercus PublishingISBN: 9781786482129Number of pages: 352Weight: 242 gDimensions: 204 x 178 x 23 mm
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The setting is enticingly atmospheric. I closed the book wanting to know more...as well as feeling the satisfaction that a really intelligent murder story can giveGriffiths's dryly humorous writing and the appeal of the two main characters make these books such a treatBone-chilling stuffThe tension never fails and it builds to a fantastically gripping climaxAn enthralling page-turner that delights in complex charactersGriffiths nimbly weaves the mythological aspects of her story...with the complicated life of her feisty heroine
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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