The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway Mysteries)

HardCover. Pub the Date: January. 2010 Pages: 320 in Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 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. Wild place called Saltmarsh overlooking the North Sea under Norfolk's vast skies. 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 two thousand 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 - bizarre notes with references to ritual and sacrifice and quoting the Bible and Shakespeare. Then a second g...