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The Crossing Places: The First Ruth Galloway Mystery
Paperback
Series: Ruth Galloway Mysteries, Book 1
Publisher Price: $18.99
ISBN13: 9780547386065
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Sep 28 2010
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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
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