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'This is a very atmospheric book. I was reading it in summer yet I could still feel the wind, the rain and the isolation of the marshes. There are many threads running through this tale, and slowly and skilfully they are pulled together to show a picture but not the picture one expects.' Mystery Women.
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Dr Ruth Galloway is in her late 30s. When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, she lectures at a university in Norfolk. 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. She's a salty character - quirky. 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. They turn out to be bronze-age bones and DCI Harry Nelson, who called on Ruth for help, is disappointed. He had hoped they would be the bones of a child called Lucy who's been missing, presumed dead, for ten years. 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. Then a second girl goes missing and Nelson gets another letter - like the ones about Lucy. 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
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As a big fan of mystery series, I bought this book based on Amazon's recommendation. I especially like mysteries with feisty female protagonists - and Dr Ruth Galloway fits the bill. Loved her sense of humour and dedication to her field of expertise .... old bones, and of course her cats. She is called in by DI Harry Nelson, another very "human", no nonsense and sympathetic character, to examine human bones. But then, you can read the summary provided so I won't go into more details. The geography of the book is so well described and lends to the mood of the story. Have already ordered the second in the series! Hope there will be many more to follow.
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Every time I had to stop reading (sometimes you have to work or sleep), I couldn't wait to get back to this book. I was dying to know what would happen to Ruth next. I loved her humor, especially when directed at herself. The characters, although some are quite weird, feel real. Ruth likes her desolated environment and being alone. And according to herself, she's fat, likes boring things like archeology and books, yet you never pity her.
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At the start of Elly Griffiths' The Crossing Places, the police find a corpse of a child. Believing it might be the remnants of a girl that went missing ten years ago, they call in archaeologist Professor Ruth Galloway. Sadly, it turns out the remnants are prehistoric. When shortly thereafter another child goes missing, Ruth feels herself dragged into the investigation.
What a beautiful setting. Ruth Galloway is such a likable character, and so very different both from standard crime novel heroes or typical chick lit heroines. She's forty, overweight and an archaeology geek, a bit self-conscious about all of those, but at the same time has a strong personality. Likewise, her counterpart, deputy inspector Nelson, is also a very likable, normal, albeit scruffy person, with normal emotions and normal problems.
The story moves along fluently and provides plenty of hints and false leads as to who the murder might be. There are very few slow scenes, and even the few "infodumps" where Ruth explains all sorts of archaeological terms fit well into the story and are only mildly annoying.
The only downside to the whole book for me was that it was written in the present tense. This seems to have become a trend in books as of late, and I find it quite annoying. The odd tense regularly distracts me from the story and kicks me out of immersion. But in this case, it could not really destroy the book - more Ruth Galloway for me.
I can recommend this book to all friends of "whodunit" crime novels who are looking for a bit of mystery and unusually usual and very likable protagonists.
What a beautiful setting. Ruth Galloway is such a likable character, and so very different both from standard crime novel heroes or typical chick lit heroines. She's forty, overweight and an archaeology geek, a bit self-conscious about all of those, but at the same time has a strong personality. Likewise, her counterpart, deputy inspector Nelson, is also a very likable, normal, albeit scruffy person, with normal emotions and normal problems.
The story moves along fluently and provides plenty of hints and false leads as to who the murder might be. There are very few slow scenes, and even the few "infodumps" where Ruth explains all sorts of archaeological terms fit well into the story and are only mildly annoying.
The only downside to the whole book for me was that it was written in the present tense. This seems to have become a trend in books as of late, and I find it quite annoying. The odd tense regularly distracts me from the story and kicks me out of immersion. But in this case, it could not really destroy the book - more Ruth Galloway for me.
I can recommend this book to all friends of "whodunit" crime novels who are looking for a bit of mystery and unusually usual and very likable protagonists.
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