
The Crossing Places
The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 1
Elly Griffiths(Author)
Quercus Publishing
Published on 6. August 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-84724-958-6 (ISBN)
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Description
Dr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child's bones are discovered near the site of a pre-historic 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...
Reviews / Votes
A great series Guardian Griffiths' excellent series is well informed and original Literary Review Griffiths weaves superstition and myth into her crime novels, skilfully treading a line between credulity and modern methods of detection Sunday Times Archaeology and crime often walk hand in hand in crime fiction, and seem a natural fit as they have in common both bones and quests for the truth. I've never before, however, read a crime novel in which the two blend as successfully as in The Crossing Places ... Elly Griffiths' characterization is as good as her writing, and I can't wait for the next in the series ShotsmagMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
226 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84724-958-6 (9781847249586)
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Elly Griffiths was born in London. She worked in publishing for many years. Her bestselling series of Ruth Galloway novels, featuring a forensic archaeologist, are set in Norfolk, and have three times been shortlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and twice for the CWA Dagger in the Library. Her new series is based in 1950s Brighton. She lives near Brighton with her husband, an archaeologist, and their two children.