The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths - ISBN: 9781786487315
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Threatening letters, buried secrets, and a past that won’t stay buried.

The Stone Circle

The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 11

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    10 September 2019

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Summary

DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters telling him to ‘go to the stone circle and rescue the innocent who is buried there’. He is shaken, not only because children are very much on his mind, with Michelle’s baby due to be born, but because although the letters are anonymous, they are somehow familiar. They read like the letters that first drew him into the case of THE CROSSING PLACES, and to Ruth. But the author of those letters is dead. Or are they?

Meanwhile Ruth…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781786487315
ISBN-10:1786487314
Author:Elly Griffiths
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:Quercus Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:10 September 2019
Weight:292g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 30mm
Series:The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Delightful … combines professional expertise with a wry sense of humour - Sunday Times

Griffiths supplies proof that thrillers can increase the pulse rate while tackling more serious issues - Guardian

Ruth Galloway is one of the most engaging characters in modern crime fiction

Griffiths has become a dab hand at plotting and cranking up the tension. The murders, and the muddled humanity of the characters, keep us turning the pages - Independent

Elly Griffiths writes ever-more ingenious detective stories with a powerful sense of place and a varied cast of sympathetic and unusual characters. Her heroine is a winner - The Times

Griffiths weaves superstition and myth into her crime novels, skilfully treading a line between credulity and modern methods of detection - Sunday Times

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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