START THE JOURNEY HERE AND YOU WILL BE HOOKED Dr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child''s bones are discovered near the site of a prehistoric henge on the north Norfolk salt marshes. Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier - or are the bones much older? DCI Harry Nelson refuses to give up the hunt for the missing girl. Since she vanished, someone has been sending him bizarre anonymous notes about ritual sacrifice, quoting Shakespeare and the Bible. He knows that Ruth''s expertise and experience could help him finally to put this case to rest. But when a second child goes missing, Ruth finds herself in danger from a killer who knows she''s getting ever closer to the truth . . . ''Immensely atmospheric'' INDIA KNIGHT ''I couldn''t put it down'' 5* READER REVIEW ''A great series'' GUARDIAN ''Loved this book so much'' 5* READER REVIEW

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Elly Griffiths is a multi-award-winning author and a No. 1 bestseller. She has written twenty-seven crime novels for adults; four for children, and a volume of short stories. Her books for adults include the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, the Brighton Mysteries and the Detective Harbinder Kaur series, as well as The Frozen People, the first book in the Ali Dawson Mysteries.

Elly's many accolades include the CWA Dagger in the Library, the Edgar Award, the Fingerprint Award for Crime Novel of the Year and the Theakston Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution Award, as well as being shortlisted multiple times for the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year Award.

Elly has two grown-up children and lives near Brighton with her archaeologist husband and their cat, Pip.

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**START THE JOURNEY HERE AND YOU WILL BE HOOKED
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Dr Ruth Galloway is called in when a child's bones are discovered near the site of a prehistoric henge on the north Norfolk salt marshes. Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier - or are the bones much older?

DCI Harry Nelson refuses to give up the hunt for the missing girl. Since she vanished, someone has been sending him bizarre anonymous notes about ritual sacrifice, quoting Shakespeare and the Bible. He knows that Ruth's expertise and experience could help him finally to put this case to rest.

But when a second child goes missing, Ruth finds herself in danger from a killer who knows she's getting ever closer to the truth . . .

'Immensely atmospheric' INDIA KNIGHT

'I couldn't put it down' 5 READER REVIEW*
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'A great series' GUARDIAN**

'Loved this book so much' 5 READER REVIEW*