Where the book is a little let down is with the plot. Griffith places the reader very effectively in the lonely, rural landscape of the fens and the seascape of the marshes.
What really shines in the book though is the sense of place. And there is a colourful cast of supporting roles that are well observed.
There’s clearly a sexual chemistry between them that Griffiths does a nice job of teasing along. Galloway and Nelson are both strong, well penned characters, with well fleshed out back stories. The real strengths of Griffiths writing is characterisation, inter-personal relationships and sense of place. Soon afterwards a second child goes missing and Ruth starts to receive threats. The bones turn out to be two thousand years old, but hoping that Ruth can help him, he shares the letters. Nelson is a man haunted by the missing girl, taunted by a steady stream of letters that claim to be directing him to her, full of references to the bible, Shakespeare and archaeological terms. Now the bones of a small body have been found, buried in a henge on the marsh, and Ruth has been asked to examine them by DCI Harry Nelson. Ten years previously a small child had disappeared in the area. She’s single, independent and living in a small cottage at the edge of the salt marshes. Dr Ruth Galloway is a forensic archaeologist specialising in ancient bones, working at the University of North Norfolk.
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