The Crossing Places

Forensic archaeologist Dr. 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 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. 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 the site near Ruth’s remote home?

• Author
• Elly Griffiths

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 304

• Series
• Ruth Galloway

• Publisher
• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780547229898

• Characters
• Ruth Galloway, Harry Nelson

• Genres
• mystery, fiction, crime, thriller, audiobook, archaeology, detective, suspense

• Release date
• 2010