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Historical crimes involving a Victorian child killer may hold the key to several contemporary deaths in this macabre outing for Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist.
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 .A team of archaeologists, investigating coastal erosion on the north Norfolk coast, unearth six bodies buried at the foot of a cliff. Elly Griffiths is the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries and the Brighton Mysteries.
Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier – or are the bones much older?There is a map of Norfolk in the front and back inside covers pointing out different places in the Ruth Galloway books, as well as a comprehensive index which also includes the books.
A beautiful word that I encountered while reading one of the Ruth Galloway books is also mentioned in this book with a stunning photograph of a "murmuration" of starlings, (p. But before he died Dan wrote to Ruth telling her that he had made a ground-breaking archaeological discovery. A stunning companion to Elly Griffiths’ beloved crime series, the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, and a photographic journey through magical No rfolk. 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. Besides being a visual delight, it affirms her wonderful descriptive skill — the landscapes and architecture are just as I (an American who’s never visited Norfolk) envisioned them while reading the series.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. When Dr Ruth Galloway discovers they were recently buried, DCI Nelson has a murder enquiry on his hands. In this book Elly takes us through a year in the Norfolk landscape, featuring the fascinating locations that have inspired her series and her writing. Griffiths also talks about her family and how they influenced her writing, especially her Aunt Marjorie.