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The Janus Stone: Bones are buried beneath it and secrets hidden
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Product Description
Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway is called in to investigate when builders, demolishing an old house, uncover the bones of a child - minus the skull. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder?
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #209933 in Books
- Published on: 2010-02-04
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
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Editorial Reviews
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'Her lead character is engagingly awkward enough to be perversely appealing... on this evidence Griffiths has wrought something of a miracle' The Times.
'It's always a pleasure when an author's second book lives up to the promise of the first, and this is certainly true of the second in Griffiths's series... There’s a satisfying meaty plot - family secrets, insanity and ancient mythology, both pagan and Roman - but it's Griffiths's dryly humorous writing and the appeal of her two main characters that make these books such a treat ... More please.' Guardian.
'...it is topically terrifying enough but far more so when it is combined with pagan rites ... bone-chilling stuff' Times.
From the Back Cover
Forensics expert Ruth Galloway is called in to investigate when builders, demolishing a large old house in Norwich, uncover the skeleton of a child - minus the skull - beneath a doorway. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? DCI Harry Nelson must find out. The house was once a children's home. Nelson meets the Catholic priest who used to run it. 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 children's home, Ruth is drawn even more deeply into the case. But as spring gives way to summer it becomes clear that someone is trying very hard to put her off the scent by frightening her half to death...
About the Author
Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway novels take for their inspiration Elly’s husband, who gave up a city job to train as an archaeologist, and her aunt who lives on the Norfolk coast and who filled her niece’s head with the myths and legends of that area. Elly has two children and lives near Brighton. The Janus Stone is her second crime novel.
