The Crossing Places

When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, Ruth Galloway lectures at the University of North Norfolk. She lives happily alone in a remote place called Saltmarsh overlooking the North Sea and, for company; she has her cats Flint and Sparky, and Radio 4. When a child's bones are found in the marshes near an ancient site that Ruth worked on ten years earlier, Ruth is asked to date them.The bones turn out to be 2000 years old, and DCI Harry Nelson, who called on Ruth for help, is disappointed. He'd hoped they would be the bones of a child called Lucy who's been missing for ten years; he's been getting letters about her ever since. Then a second girl goes missing and Nelson receives more letters.Soon it becomes clear that Ruth is in grave danger from a killer who knows that her expert knowledge is being used to help the police with their enquiries.

Elly Griffiths is the USA Today bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway and Brighton mystery series, as well as the standalone novels The Stranger Diaries, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel; The Postscript Murders; and Bleeding Heart Yard. She is the recipient of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award and the Mary Higgins Clark Award. She lives in Brighton, England and also has published 4 novels under her real name Domenica de Rosa. Jane McDowell is an English theatre, film, television, radio and voice actress based in London. She trained originally as a dancer and worked professionally for several years in classical and modern companies both in the UK and abroad. Her film work includes Psychosis, Gracie and a leading role in the award-winning British feature film 12 in a Box. Jane has recorded plays and poetry readings for BBC radio and a broad range of audiobooks, including Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize.

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