It’s been only a few months since archaeologist Ruth Galloway found herself entangled in a missing persons case, barely escaping with her life. Is it the same killer? Is it a ritual murder, linked in some way to the site near Ruth’s remote home? Then one of Ruth’s cats is killed and clearly she’s in danger from a killer who knows that her expert knowledge is being used to help the police with their enquiries
Then a second girl goes missing and Nelson gets another letter like the ones about Lucy. He has been getting letters about her ever since odd letters with references to ritual and sacrifice, and including quotes from the Bible and Shakespeare. He had hoped they would be the bones of a child called Lucy who’s been missing, presumed dead, for ten years. They turn out to be bronze age bones and DCI Harry Nelson, who called on Ruth for help, is disappointed. When a child’s bones are found in the marshes, near a dig that Ruth and her former boyfriend Peter worked on ten years before, Ruth is called upon to date them. She lives, alone but happily so, in a bleak, marshy area called Saltmarsh overlooking the sea and Norfolk’s vast skies with her cats and Radio 4 for company. When she’s not digging up bones or other ancient objects, she lectures at a university in Norfolk. When threatening letters come to light, events take an even more sinister turn.īut as Ruth's friends become involved, where will her loyalties lie? As her convictions are tested, she and Nelson must discover how Aboriginal skulls, drug smuggling and the Aboriginal ritual of The Dreaming may hold the answer to these deaths - and be the key to their own survival.Dr Ruth Galloway is in her late 30s. These two deaths could be from natural causes but DCI Harry Nelson isn't convinced, and it is only a matter of time before Ruth and Nelson cross paths once more. Soon the museum's wealthy owner lies dead in his stables too. But then Ruth finds the body of the museum's curator lying beside the coffin.
'A wonderfully rich mix of ancient and contemporary' GuardianIt is Halloween in King's Lynn, and forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway is attending a strange event at the local history museum - the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop.
The fourth beguiling Dr Ruth Galloway mystery. She is used to long-dead bodies, but a fresh corpse in the middle of a museum is a new challenge.
Halloween night, and the dead are closer than ever for Dr Ruth Galloway. WINNER OF THE 2016 CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY.
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