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The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths

By Elly Griffiths

Release Date: 2010-01-05

Genre: Women Sleuths

4.5 (143 ratings)
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The first entry in the acclaimed Ruth Galloway British crime series follows the "captivating"* archaeologist as she investigates a child’s bones found on a nearby beach, thought to be part of a decade-old cold case.

Forensic archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is in her late thirties. She lives happily alone with her two cats in a bleak, remote area near the Norfolk coast, land that was sacred to its Iron Age inhabitants—not quite earth, not quite sea. But her routine days of digging up bones and other ancient objects are harshly upended when a child’s bones are found on a desolate beach. In this gripping police procedural, Detective Chief Inspector Nelson calls Galloway for help, believing they are the remains of Lucy Downey, a little girl who went missing a decade ago and whose abductor continues to taunt him with bizarre letters containing references to ritual sacrifice, Shakespeare, and the Bible. Then a second girl goes missing and Nelson receives a new letter—exactly like the ones about Lucy.

Is it the same killer? Or a copycat murderer, linked in some way to Ruth’s remote home?

*Louise Penny

The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths

By Elly Griffiths

Release Date: 2010-01-05

Genre: Women Sleuths

4.5 (143 ratings)
Read Download
The first entry in the acclaimed Ruth Galloway British crime series follows the "captivating"* archaeologist as she investigates a child’s bones found on a nearby beach, thought to be part of a decade-old cold case.

Forensic archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is in her late thirties. She lives happily alone with her two cats in a bleak, remote area near the Norfolk coast, land that was sacred to its Iron Age inhabitants—not quite earth, not quite sea. But her routine days of digging up bones and other ancient objects are harshly upended when a child’s bones are found on a desolate beach. In this gripping police procedural, Detective Chief Inspector Nelson calls Galloway for help, believing they are the remains of Lucy Downey, a little girl who went missing a decade ago and whose abductor continues to taunt him with bizarre letters containing references to ritual sacrifice, Shakespeare, and the Bible. Then a second girl goes missing and Nelson receives a new letter—exactly like the ones about Lucy.

Is it the same killer? Or a copycat murderer, linked in some way to Ruth’s remote home?

*Louise Penny

More by Elly Griffiths

The Locked Room

The Last Remains

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The Last Word

Bleeding Heart Yard

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The Janus Stone

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A Dying Fall

The Lantern Men

A Room Full Of Bones

The Outcast Dead

The Chalk Pit

The Postscript Murders

The Woman In Blue

The Dark Angel

The Stone Circle

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The Ghost Fields

The Frozen People

The Vanishing Box

The Zig Zag Girl

Ruth Galloway Series

The Midnight Hour

Smoke And Mirrors

Now You See Them

The Blood Card

The Man in Black

The Killing Time

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El secreto del rey cuervo

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Los ecos del pantano

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