Ruth Galloway · Book 1
The Crossing Places
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 303
- ISBN-13
- 9780547229898
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Crossing Places (2009) opens the series when bones surface on Norfolk's bleak Saltmarsh coast and DCI Harry Nelson calls in forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway to date them -- the start of a partnership, and a complicated on-and-off relationship, that runs through the next fifteen books. It runs 303 pages.
Its place in Ruth Galloway
The Crossing Places is book 1 in the Ruth Galloway series. It is followed by The Janus Stone. See the full Ruth Galloway reading order.
Dr. Ruth Galloway is a forensic archaeologist at the fictional University of North Norfolk, more comfortable with bones in a dig site than with people, whose expertise in ancient burials keeps drawing her into distinctly modern murder investigations. When bones surface on the bleak Saltmarsh coast in The Crossing Places (2009), DCI Harry Nelson calls her in to date them — and finds himself relying on her again and again as the marshland around Norfolk's Iron Age past keeps yielding contemporary bodies. Elly…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780547229898
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780547386065