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Informationen zum Autor Elly Griffiths is the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries and the Brighton Mysteries. She has won the CWA Dagger in the Library, has been shortlisted five times for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for The Lantern Men . Her new series featuring Detective Harbinder Kaur began with The Stranger Diaries , which was a Richard and Judy book club pick and won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in the USA. It was followed by The Postscript Murders , shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and Bleeding Heart Yard . Elly has two grown-up children and lives near Brighton with her archaeologist husband. Klappentext The unmissable new book in the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, Ruth and Nelson are working on a murder case in which Cathbad emerges as the prime suspect, Can they uncover the truth in time to save their friend?'GALLOWAY NOW SEEMS AS REAL AS MARPLE AND MORSE' The Times 'SET IN DIVINE NORTH NORFOLK, INTENSELY ATMOSPHERIC AND GREAT' India KnightWhen builders renovating a café in King's Lynn find a human skeleton in the wall, they immediately call for DCI Harry Nelson and Dr Ruth Galloway, Head of Archaeology at the nearby University of North Norfolk, Ruth is preoccupied with the possible closure of her department and by the fact that Nelson and his wife are now living separately, Nevertheless she agrees to take on the case, She sees immediately that the bones are modern and they are soon identified as the remains of Katherine Sands, who went missing in the 1990s, Katherine attended a spiritual well-being course and suspicion falls on the leader of the course - Ruth's friend, Cathbad,The Police start to investigate the group and find that there are other missing women, making matters even worse for Cathbad, The trail leads Nelson to the famous Neolithic flint mines in Grimes Graves and to an archaeology group, Ruth agrees to infiltrate the group and there meets a figure from her own past, Soon the race is on to exonerate Cathbad, but will Ruth and Nelson uncover the truth in time to save their friend? Vorwort Ruth and Nelson are working on a murder case in which Cathbad emerges as the prime suspect. Can they uncover the truth in time to save their friend? Zusammenfassung The unmissable new book in the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries. Ruth and DCI Nelson are working on a murder case in which their friend Cathbad emerges as the prime suspect. Can they uncover the truth in time to save him? 'GALLOWAY NOW SEEMS AS REAL AS MARPLE AND MORSE' The Times 'SET IN DIVINE NORTH NORFOLK. INTENSELY ATMOSPHERIC' India Knight When builders renovating a café in King's Lynn unearth a human skeleton, they call for DCI Harry Nelson and Dr Ruth Galloway, Head of Archaeology at the University of North Norfolk. Ruth is preoccupied with the threatened closure of her department and by her ever-complicated relationship with Nelson. The bones are identified as those of Emily Pickering, an archaeology student who went missing in the 1990s. Emily attended a course run by her Cambridge tutor. Suspicion falls on him and on another course member - Ruth's friend Cathbad, who is still frail following his near death from Covid. As they investigate, Nelson and his team uncover a tangled web of relationships within the student group and the adults leading them. Then, just when the team seem to be making progress, Cathbad disappears. The trail leads Ruth and Nelson to the Neolithic flint mines in Grime's Graves. The race is on, first to find Cathbad and then to exonerate him, but will Ruth and Nelson uncover the truth in time to save their friend? 'Excellent ... kept me guessing every step of the way' 5* READER REVIEW 'The best Ruth Galloway of the lot' 5*...
