{"product_id":"griffiths-the-stone-circle","title":"Griffiths: The Stone Circle","description":"\n\n\n'My favourite series' Val McDermidDCI 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 is working on a dig in the Saltmarsh - another henge, known by the archaeologists as the stone circle - trying not to think about the baby. Then bones are found on the site, and identified as those of Margaret Lacey, a twelve-year-old girl who disappeared thirty years ago.As the Margaret Lacey case progresses, more and more aspects of it begin to hark back to that first case of The Crossing Places, and to Scarlett Henderson, the girl Nelson couldn't save. The past is reaching out for Ruth and Nelson, and its grip is deadly.\n\n\nReview\n\n\nDelightful . . . combines professional expertise with a wry sense of humour - Sunday Times\nGriffiths supplies\nproof that thrillers can increase the pulse rate while tackling more serious issues - Guardian\nRuth Galloway is\none of the most engaging characters in modern crime fiction\nGriffiths has become\na dab hand at plotting and cranking up the tension. The murders, and the muddled humanity of the characters, keep us turning the pages - Independent\nElly Griffiths writes\never-more ingenious detective stories with a powerful sense of place and a varied cast of sympathetic and unusual characters.\nHer heroine is a winner - The Times\nGriffiths\nweaves superstition and myth into her crime novels, skilfully treading a line between credulity and modern methods of detection - Sunday Times\n\n\nBook Description\n\n\nDr Ruth Galloway faces a battle with the past in more ways than one in her 11th gripping investigation\n\n\nAuthor Bio\n\n\nElly Griffiths was born in London. She worked in publishing before becoming a full-time writer. Her bestselling series of Dr Ruth Galloway novels, featuring a forensic archaeologist, are set in Norfolk. The series has won the CWA Dagger in the Library, and has been shortlisted three times for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Her Brighton-based mystery series is set in the 1950s and 1960s. Elly has also written a standalone mystery, The Stranger Diaries, which was a Richard \u0026amp; Judy bestseller and won America's most coveted accolade for crime fiction, the Edgar Award. Elly lives near Brighton with her husband, an archaeologist, and their cat, Gus.","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":32686035992661,"sku":"9781786487315N","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/9781786487315.jpg?v=1598877456","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/griffiths-the-stone-circle","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}