The Crossing Places

<p><strong>The first entry in the acclaimed Ruth Galloway series follows the captivating* archaeologist as she investigates a child's bones found on a nearby beach thought to be the remains of a little girl who went missing ten years before.</strong> <p/>Forensic archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is in her late thirties. She lives happily alone with her two cats in a bleak remote area near Norfolk land that was sacred to its Iron Age inhabitants--not quite earth not quite sea. But her routine days of digging up bones and other ancient objects are harshly upended when a child's bones are found on a desolate beach. Detective Chief Inspector Nelson calls Galloway for help believing they are the remains of Lucy Downey a little girl who went missing a decade ago and whose abductor continues to taunt him with bizarre letters containing references to ritual sacrifice Shakespeare and the Bible. Then a second girl goes missing and Nelson receives a new letter--exactly like the ones about Lucy. <p/> Is it the same killer? Or a copycat murderer linked in some way to the site near Ruth's remote home? <p/> *Louise Penny</p> <br>