The Janus Stone: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 2

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A mysterious knocking on the side of a canal boat provides the opening gambit in Case Sensitive, the latest book from AK Turner. There is something for everyone, cracking plots,love,despair,struggles with conscience and most of all hope.

They start tracking down the operator of the children’s home, Father Hennessey who is a Catholic Priest. If you’re new to the Ruth Galloway series, this is not the book for you, but if you’re a regular you’ll delight in the subtle little reminders of previous novels and the characters they contained. Elly Griffiths has turned out a complex plot rich with intriguing characters, some recurrent and others case-related.

The Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney celebrated the enigmatic Boa Island bilateral figure's similarity to the Roman deity Janus in his poem "January God". Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition.

Meanwhile, in modern day Norfolk a baby snatcher known as The Childminder is abducting young victims – and and after a child close to everyone involved disappears, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Assuming that the murdered child is the missing girl, Nelson is amazed when forensic evidence shows that the two must be different, and even more astonished when he realizes the Spens family used to live in the house. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U. But as spring turns into summer it becomes clear that someone is desperate to put her off the scent by frightening her to death. Her book The Crossing Places received the Mary Higgins Clark award in 2011 and was also shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year.

Irish archaeologist Eileen Murphy states in Warrior Women (2002) that the Lustymore Idol is thought by some Irish scholars to be the precursor to Sheela na gigs: her arms lie across the torso and point toward the inverted V that represents the top of the vulva (page 204). For the majority of the series, Ruth lives in North Norfolk, in a tiny cottage at the edge of the salt marsh.

Elly Griffiths currently has ten novels with six of them being the Ruth Galloway series, two more with Ruth Galloway as the main character, one written with other authors, and yet another one in a in Spanish with Ruth Galloway as the main character. The storyline is actually secondary to the characters, but the characters are exceptionally portrayed, from Druid and Celtic practitioners to a rugged policeman. The lower section of the figure—two hands with elongated fingers carved in relief—was broken away from the top part at an unknown time in the past. Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier – or are the bones much older?Griffiths has also tried her hand at standalone crime novels, with The Stranger Diaries and The Postscript Murders both set in Sussex and featuring DS Harbinder Kaur. The Boa Island bilateral figure is 73cm (29in) high, 45cm (18in) wide on its two broader surfaces, and 30cm (12in) wide on its two narrow surfaces. This is the 30th book, but considering Alex has survived "Kill Alex Cross" before, chances are he survives this one. They were born to a mother goddess, Ernmas, who is mentioned in Lebor Gabála Érenn and Cath Maige Tuired as one of the Tuatha Dé Danann. The lower section of the figure—two hands with elongated fingers carved in relief was broken away from the top part at an unknown time in the past.