The Janus Stone: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 2 by Elly GriffithsMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is fast becoming one of my favourite series. OK, I've only read two so far! Which leaves six to go...
Clever and intelligent murder stories with likeable characters. Dr. Ruth Galloway is vulnerable and engaging. As a forensic archaeologist she finds herself embroiled in police investigations almost by accident. At the request of DCI Harry Nelson. As in #1, bones have been found, on this occasion at a Victorian house in Norwich, which is being demolished by builders to make way for a luxury apartment development. The skeleton appears to be that of a young child - minus the skull. How long has it been there? Could it be hundreds of years old or much more recent? The house was once a children's home and Nelson learns from the priest who used to run it that two children did go missing forty years ago - a boy and girl who have never been found.
As the investigation gathers pace sinister events occur; someone wants to put Ruth and Nelson off the scent, the scent of a long forgotten crime, events that put Ruth's life in danger.
Superstition and myth, Druid worship, Roman gods, forensic archaeology woven into a superb crime story set in the wild and bleak area of North Norfolk and another breathless and gripping climax that had my pulse racing once again. And that signature Elly Griffiths' cliffhanger of an ending. I am well and truly hooked. Number 3 it is then....
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