![]() ![]() Griffiths nicely blends history and romance with gothic elements. ![]() The arrival of the film company and Fred's American daughter, Nell Blackstock Goodheart, sets the stage for a series of deaths and personal revelations that culminates in Ruth's being trapped in massive Blackstock Hall during a terrible storm. The decision of an American TV company to do a program about Norfolk's abandoned airfields brings Frank Barker, an academic Ruth was attracted to while working together on an earlier case, back into her life. Blackstock, a scion of a prominent Norfolk family, who served in the American air force, though Fred was supposedly lost at sea in a different plane and presumed dead. plane, with its pilot in his seat and a bullet hole in his temple, propels British author Griffiths's well-crafted seventh mystery featuring forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway (after 2014's The Outcast Dead). "The unearthing in Norfolk of a WWII-era U.S. ![]() Her heroine is a winner The Times Griffiths weaves superstition and myth into her crime novels, skilfully treading a line between credulity and modern methods of detection Sunday Times An almost gothic plot, involving family feuds and a. The Ghost Fields: A Mystery (Ruth Galloway Mysteries #7) Elly Griffiths writes ever-more ingenious detective stories with a powerful sense of place and a varied cast of sympathetic and unusual characters. ![]()
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