The Crossing Places
The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 1
Will be published approx. on 20. November 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-5294-4823-8 (ISBN)
Description
START THE JOURNEY HERE AND YOU WILL BE HOOKED
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 . . .
'Immensely atmospheric' INDIA KNIGHT
'I couldn't put it down' 5* READER REVIEW
'A great series' GUARDIAN
'Loved this book so much' 5* READER REVIEW
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 . . .
'Immensely atmospheric' INDIA KNIGHT
'I couldn't put it down' 5* READER REVIEW
'A great series' GUARDIAN
'Loved this book so much' 5* READER REVIEW
Reviews / Votes
Galloway now seems as real as Marple and Morse * The Times * Witty, insightful and brilliant storytelling * Daily Mirror * A great series * Guardian *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
226 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5294-4823-8 (9781529448238)
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E-Book
08/2009
Quercus Publishing
€5.99
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Person
Elly Griffiths is the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries and the Brighton Mysteries. She has won the CWA Dagger in the Library, has been shortlisted five times for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for The Lantern Men. Her new series featuring Detective Harbinder Kaur began with The Stranger Diaries, which was a Richard and Judy book club pick and won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in the USA. It was followed by The Postscript Murders, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and Bleeding Heart Yard. Elly has two grown-up children and lives near Brighton with her archaeologist husband.