Ten years ago forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway helped uncover an Iron Age henge at the Saltmarsh on the Norfolk coast of England. Now she has been asked by DCI Harry Nelson to assist when bones are found in the marsh. Are they the bones of a girl who has been missing for ten years or are they another Iron Age find like the henge?

Griffiths deftly describes the harsh and lonely Saltmarsh which Galloway now calls home. She has also created very personable characters and an intriguing plot. This is the first in a series and is followed by The Janus Stone and The House at Sea’s End.

Griffiths won the 2011 Edgar Allen Poe: Mary Higgins Clark award for The Crossing Places.

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