The Janus Stone: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 2

· Hachette UK
4.6
42 reviews
Ebook
336
Pages

About this ebook

A gruesome discovery at an old children's home lays bare terrible secret's from Norwich's past in the second gripping mystery for Dr Ruth Galloway.

'The setting is enticingly atmospheric . . . a really intelligent murder story' Independent

Dr Ruth Galloway's forensic skills are called upon when builders, demolishing an old house in Norwich, uncover the bones of a child - minus the skull - beneath a doorway. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? Ruth links up with DCI Harry Nelson to investigate.

The house was once a children's home. Nelson traces the Catholic priest who used to run the place. He tells him that two children did go missing forty years before - a boy and a girl. They were never found.

When carbon dating proves that the child's bones predate the home and relate to a time when the house was privately owned, Ruth is drawn ever more deeply into the case. But as spring turns into summer it becomes clear that someone is desperate to put her off the scent by frightening her to death...

Ratings and reviews

4.6
42 reviews
Richard Lewington
May 2, 2017
I have read half a dozen of the Ruth Galloway mysteries over the last 5 - 6 years, but somehow had not missed this one. Well plotted, with quirky characters who nevertheless carry you along with them. I especially enjoy the way the author introduces an element of comic interlude at the tensest moments. For example when Dr Ruth regrets her wasted membership of the gym even as she struggles to save herself from a deranged killer on board a boat on the Broads. I laughed out loud all through the book.
2 people found this review helpful
S Robinson
August 20, 2016
Ones again a brilliant read you rearly are a brilliant story teller I'll even forgive : Nielson using the bad word twice of cause I've read these books back to front as it were but it didn't spoil the story I hope there will be many more about Ruth and Nelson and the rest of the term well done.
A Google user
March 2, 2019
I'm addicted to her books this one has twist and turns leading you one way or another taking you on her journey with Ruth very good read couldn't put it down. will pick up the next book and I'm sure will use all my spare time to read.
1 person found this review helpful

About the author

Elly Griffiths is the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries and the Brighton Mysteries. She has won the CWA Dagger in the Library, has been shortlisted five times for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for The Lantern Men. Her new series featuring Detective Harbinder Kaur began with The Stranger Diaries, which was a Richard and Judy book club pick and won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in the USA. It was followed by The Postscript Murders, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and Bleeding Heart Yard. Elly has two grown-up children and lives near Brighton with her archaeologist husband.

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