There was no question of this book earning anything less than a 5 star rating from me…Dark, atmospheric and absorbing, it covers the subjects I have a great love for: archaeology, prehistory, geography, spirituality…all bound up wonderfully with a dark mystery. The Crossing Places was one of those books for me. Every reader has those books which they feel were written for them. And now I’ve read it, I cannot understand why it had taken me so long to get it. This book, like so many others, has been languishing on my TBR list for a ridiculous amount of time. (From The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths, page 413) It is why we build monuments to death so that they live on after we die.” “The human desire is to live, to cheat death, to live forever. Is it the same killer or a copycat murderer, linked in some way to the site near Ruth’s remote home? Then a second girl goes missing and Nelson receives a new letter-exactly like the ones about Lucy. 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. 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.

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. I can’t wait to read more! 5 / 5įorensic archaeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is an interesting main character, and this a fantastic start to a series. Quick Review (read on for full review) Atmospheric and absorbing, The Crossing Places is a dark tale full of twists and turns and rich, vivid storytelling. The Crossing Places is the first book in the Ruth Galloway Mysteries by Elly Griffiths.

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