The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths - ISBN: 9781529448238
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Ancient bones, missing children, and a killer lurks in the marsh.

The Crossing Places

The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 1

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    3 March 2026

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Summary

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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529448238
ISBN-10:1529448239
Author:Elly Griffiths
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:Quercus Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:3 March 2026
Weight:220g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 22mm
Series:The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries
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Critics Review

Galloway now seems as real as Marple and Morse * The Times *
Witty, insightful and brilliant storytelling * Daily Mirror *
A great series * Guardian *

About The Author

Elly Griffiths

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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