![]() It marks the beginning of a stunning new mystery series, and the debut of an intelligent, salty-tongued sleuth who is all the more likeable for being vulnerable in ways she’s the last to recognize. Ruth Galloway is in her late thirties and lives happily alone with her two cats in a bleak, remote area near Norfolk, land that was sacred to its Iron Age. The Crossing Places is a gripping story about how the past, even the distant past, can have a deadly hold on the present. She’s wrong: it’s just the beginning of a nightmare. The basic plot is that some bones are found on a beach in Norfolk and forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway is called in to help date them. ![]() They include The Crossing Places, The Janus Stone, The House at Seas End, A Room Full of Bones, A. When Ruth proves that the bones are those of an Iron Age girl who died over two thousand years ago, she supposes that this is the end of the story. The Ruth Galloway series has six books altogether in it. It’s a cold case he has never been able to forget, in part because he’s received creepy letters about Lucy-quoting Shakespeare and the Bible, in addition to referencing ritual and sacrifice-ever since her disappearance. ![]() ![]() ![]() He thinks they may be the bones of a child called Lucy who has been missing for ten years. When a child’s bones are found near an ancient henge in the wild saltmarshes of Norfolk’s north coast, Ruth Galloway, a university lecturer in forensic archaeology, is asked to date them by DCI Harry Nelson. ![]()
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