'This 14th installment in the beloved series finds forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway contending with a medieval skeleton, a family secret-and the encroaching COVID pandemic.' - People, Best Books of Summer 'Kicks of just ahead of the COVID-19 lockdown, adding an extra level of tension to a locked-room police investigation that intersects with local ghost stories, myths, and historical plague lore.' - Boston Globe, Summer Reading 'Ruth proves endearing in her insecurities and inspiring in her fierce determination as she copes with a perilous world. I identified with her insecurities and struggles, and cheered her on.' -Louise Penny Highly atmospheric.' -New York Times Book Review 'Forensic archeologist and academic Ruth Galloway is a captivating amateur sleuth-an inspired creation. Readers will look forward to learning more about her.' -USA Today 'Elly Griffiths draws us all the way back to prehistoric times.

PRAISE FOR ELLY GRIFFITHS AND THE RUTH GALLOWAY SERIES Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel Winner of the Mary Higgins Clark Award Winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award 'Galloway is an everywoman, smart, successful and a little bit unsure of herself. But the further Nelson investigates the deaths, the closer he gets to Ruth's isolated cottage-until Ruth, Zoe, and Kate all go missing, and Nelson is left scrambling to find them before it's too late. When he links a case to an archaeological discovery, he breaks curfew to visit Ruth and enlist her help. Meanwhile, Nelson is investigating a series of deaths of women that may or may not be suicide. They struggle to stave off isolation by clapping for frontline workers each evening and befriending a kind neighbor, Zoe, from a distance. Ruth returns to the cottage to uncover its meaning as Norfolk's first cases of Covid-19 make headlines, leaving her and Kate to shelter in place there. Three years after her mother's death, Ruth is finally sorting through her things when she finds a curious relic: a decades-old photograph of her own Norfolk cottage-before she lived there-with a peculiar inscription on the back.

Pandemic lockdowns have Ruth Galloway feeling isolated from everyone but a new neighbor-until Nelson comes calling, investigating a decades-long string of murder-suicides that's looming ever closer, in USA Today Elly Griffiths' penultimate novel in the beloved series.

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