The Crossing Locations by Elly Griffiths
My ranking: 4 of 5 stars
The Crossing Locations is guide #1 within the Dr Ruth Galloway thriller collection.
This story is ready within the salt marshes of Norfolk. Dr Ruth Galloway is an archaeologist; she is requested to assist with a police investigation after walkers uncover bones out on the marsh.
DCI Harry Nelson has an unsolved lacking youngster case which he hopes could be resolved by the bones, however it isn’t the case. He subsequent asks Ruth to learn a collection of letters that he has been despatched through the years which mock his lack of progress on the case. When a second youngster goes lacking, Ruth turns into concerned as soon as extra, however now she is at risk too.
I favored the wintery setting on the salt marshes with the storms and the tidal waters; it made for a bleak, lonely ambiance which suited the storyline. There have been a number of crimson herrings to maintain the narrative flowing and the construct as much as the ending had a great twist. Total this stored me sufficient that I might learn extra on this collection.
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Guide description:
Forensic archaeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is in her late thirties and lives fortunately alone together with her two cats in a bleak, distant space close to Norfolk, land that was sacred to its Iron Age inhabitants—not fairly earth, not fairly sea. However her routine days of digging up bones and different historical objects are harshly upended when a baby’s bones are discovered on a desolate seaside. Detective Chief Inspector Nelson calls Galloway for assist, believing they’re the stays of Lucy Downey, a little bit woman who went lacking a decade in the past and whose abductor continues to taunt him with weird letters containing references to ritual sacrifice, Shakespeare, and the Bible. Then a second woman goes lacking and Nelson receives a brand new letter—precisely like those about Lucy. Is it the identical killer or a copycat assassin, linked indirectly to the location close to Ruth’s distant residence?
