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2000s: A case which links back to book one The Crossing Places
The Stone Circle
What you need to know before your trail
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, as 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.
Locations
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Travel BookTrail style to Ruth Galloway’s Saltmarsh
As with all Elly Griffiths novels, this has an excellent sense of place. Those marshes are dank and vast, the beach at Titchwell much more sparse and chilling in the novels than in real life though!
This book looks into the old myths surrounding stone circles and it’s a fascinating journey into the past and how it touches on to the present.
The iconic stone circle plays a very important role in the plot.
This is a RSPB marshland in real life but the scene of a crime in the novel.
Booktrailer Review
Susan: @thebooktrailer
A clever addition to the series. There’s a new case but one that links up to the first book The Crossing Places and it also ties up a few threads from other books in the series.
There’s a fascinating mystery about stone circles in the countryside and this was very interesting. Stanton Drew is very real and it was a unique place to have the mystery unfold. The idea of circles – the circle of life and the circling back to events of the past was a strong theme and it made for an interesting theme.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: The Stone Circle
Destination: Norfolk Author/guide: Elly Griffiths Departure Time: 2000s
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