Her bestselling series of Dr Ruth Galloway novels, featuring a forensic archaeologist, are set in Norfolk.

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Superb read that had me laughing, crying and near the end so shocked I could hardly breath and shouting aloud "Oh NO!In the first book they slept together, finding comfort in each other after a very taxing day, and then she got pregnant and had her baby daughter, Kate. A memorable, breathless race against time…One of the most cinematic finales in recent British crime novels. This latest book penned by Elly Griffiths, "A Dying Fall" (Houghton Mifflin 2013) dwells on that rich content we armchair anthropologists love--ancient bones with stories to tell.

But Cathbad too has grown into someone of great depth, despite his continued bizarre pronouncements of feeling the spirits and such, with his own tragedy and story yet-to-be-told. Secondly, her on-again-off-again love interest, DCI Harry Nelson is a gruff, at times chauvinistic, copper, more lethal, subtle, and intelligent than meets the eye. They marry but his heart is not in the relationship, particularly after he meets and falls in love with another woman. As luck would have it, the friend's employer (a struggling college) invites Galloway (a well-known expert in this field) to evaluate what should be a 1500-year old skeleton. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Who, but Nelson, would see plastic meats laid out in a kitchen display at a National Trust property and think of an autopsy?