'My favourite series'Val McDermid
DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters telling him to'go to the stone circle and rescue the innocent who is buried there'. He is shaken,not only because children are very much on his mind,with Michelle's baby due to be born,but because although the letters are anonymous,they are somehow familiar. They read like the letters that first drew him into the case of The Crossing Places,and to Ruth. But the author of those letters is dead. Or are they
Meanwhile Ruth is working on a dig in the Saltmarsh - another henge,known by the archaeologists as the stone circle - trying not to think about the baby. Then bones are found on the site,and identified as those of Margaret Lacey,a twelve-year-old girl who disappeared thirty years ago.
As the Margaret Lacey case progresses,more and more aspects of it begin to hark back to that first case of The Crossing Places,and to Scarlett Henderson,the girl Nelson couldn't save. The past is reaching out for Ruth and Nelson,and its grip is deadly.
Publisher: Quercus PublishingISBN: 9781786487315Number of pages: 416Weight: 300 gDimensions: 198 x 130 x 34 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Delightful...combines professional expertise with a wry sense of humour.'- Sunday Times
'Griffiths supplies proof that thrillers can increase the pulse rate while tackling more serious issues.'- Guardian
'Ruth Galloway is one of the most engaging characters in modern crime fiction. Griffiths has become a dab hand at plotting and cranking up the tension. The murders,and the muddled humanity of the characters,keep us turning the pages.'- Independent
'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 winner.'- The Times
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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