This is book number 13 in the Ruth Galloway series.
Although it is part of a series this book can be read out of order or as a standalone novel, as the author weaves the necessary background information into the story. I can safely say this as I have only read a couple of books from this series.
I found this an engrossing mystery thriller and I was drawn in from the first chapter. The book held my attention from start to end and gave me a few late nights reading.
I would have no hesitation in recommending thus book.
I am now on a mission to read the series from the beginning.

Ruth Galloway returns to Norfolk with a promotion and a new colleague she can't warm to.  
Almost immediately she is contacted to consult on an unexpected beach find by a group of metal detectorists.  This group of enthusiasts have also found a more recent corpse nearby; was he an asylum seeker who has come to grief or something else?  What's happening on that isolated farm?  
Nelson is still resisting retirement and blocking Judy's chance of a local promotion and failing to resolve his complicated family life.  Ruth is still exhausted by the daily grind and correcting everyone who gets her daughter's name wrong.   
Cathbad remains a druidic constant in community life, linking the metal detectorists, local historians, police and archaeological experts together.  
Despite the rollocking plot and sense of real peril, this series remains warm and wryly funny.  Norfolk's bleak coastal beauty continues to draw the reader in and the characters are completely realistic, all just trying to make it to home time.

A body is discovered by a group of night time metal detectorists called The Night Hawks. It’s not long before a second is uncovered. That one is older than the first and DCI Nelson can only think of one person he can call - Dr Ruth Galloway.
Nelson is also investigating a murder-suicide at the remote Black Dog Farm, which he also needs help with after reading the suicide note saying ‘He’s buried in the garden’. Another job for Ruth!
The duo soon are embroiled in two strange cases that lead back to Black Dog Farm, with a dangerous invisible enemy and tales of a giant dog called the Black Shuck.
Ruth and Nelson will have to have their wits about them if they want to solve the two crimes and stay alive at the same time.
Another wonderful novel by Elly Griffiths.
I personally think this might be the best in the series so far. 
Elly has that wonderful knack to keep the reader guessing with her great plots, brilliant characters and well researched storylines. Her writing is intelligent, thoughtful and heartfelt.
Another fantastic book from the finest of writers. Outstanding.

I love Elly Griffiths's books, particularly her Ruth Galloway series, so I was thrilled to receive an early copy of The Night Hawks. It is a wonderful gothicky murder-mystery, with a nod to The Hound of the Baskervilles, and it's my favourite so far.

Ruth has returned to Norfolk after being offered the role of Head of the Archaeology Department at the university. She is suffering from slight imposter syndrome, not helped by a particular member of staff undermining her at every turn, but she is still DCI Nelson's expert of choice whenever a body is found. In this case, a young man has been found washed up on the beach at Blakeney Point by a group of metal detectorists called The Night Hawks. At first DCI Nelson believes the man drowned accidentally, but then more murders are discovered at the nearby Black Dog Farm - named for the legendary Black Shuck, a harbinger of death... 

The Night Hawks is a fabulous traditional murder mystery, with humour and emotional conflict dished up alongside a fiendishly clever plot. Elly Griffiths takes care to write believable characters you can thoroughly engage with and care about. Ruth has finally landed her dream job, only to be undermined by an irritating mansplainer at every turn. She and DCI Nelson are still involved in their will/they won't they relationship, and fans will be delighted that Cathbad makes an appearance. I loved the gothic edge - a spooky old farm and a legendary ghostly dog. There's even buried 'treasure' - and bodies! I gave up trying to work out who the murderer was and just thoroughly enjoyed the story.

Although this book is number 13 in the series, you don't need to have read the others. Elly explains everyone's backstory deftly and succinctly before getting on with business. The Night Hawks is one of my favourite reads this year. Why isn't it a TV series yet?!!



Thank you to Elly Griffiths and Quercus for my copy of this book, which I requested from NetGalley and reviewed voluntarily.

Get ready for lots of twists and turns as you get enticed into the latest offering from Elly Griffiths.

As a grim discovery is made on the beach, remains of a much older person are also found. As the investigation gets underway forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway is called in for her expert opinion, but as the case progresses, the bodies begin to pile up and the list of suspects seems to grow!

This is well written and a fantastic instalment in this successful series. It really will keep you guessing right up until the end. The way it included history of the area in which it was set was really interesting. 
I thoroughly enjoyed this and would certainly read other books from this well known author. 

Thank you to Netgalley, the publishers and most importantly the author, for the chance to read this book, in exchange for an honest review.

The Night Hawks is the thirteenth instalment in the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries series and is an excellent and captivating addition to Griffiths' oeuvre. There’s nothing forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway hates more than amateur archaeologists, but when a group of them stumble upon Bronze Age artifacts alongside a dead body in North Norfolk, she finds herself thrust into their midst—and into the crosshairs of a string of murders circling ever closer. Ruth is back as head of archaeology at the University of North Norfolk when a group of local metal detectorists—the so-called Night Hawks—uncovers Bronze Age artifacts on the beach, alongside a recently deceased body, just washed ashore. Not long after, the same detectorists uncover a murder-suicide—a scientist and his wife found at their farmhouse, long thought to be haunted by the Black Shuck, a humongous black dog, a harbinger of death. The further DCI Nelson probes into both cases, the more intertwined they become, and the closer they circle to David Brown, the new lecturer Ruth has recently hired, who seems always to turn up wherever Ruth goes.

This is a scintillating, enthralling and engrossing mystery thriller from one of the best in the game at creating intense and atmospheric crime novels. Right from the opening pages you are immersed in the story and begin to really care about the characters as they fight to uncover the truth. It has a slow-burn feel, and a ripped from the headlines plot with plenty of drama, danger, twists and expert use of misdirection. The archeological aspects have been fully researched and it's clear Griffiths knows exactly what she's talking about, therefore, bringing an air of realism and authenticity to proceedings using this knowledge to pen a believable and compulsively readable tale; it's odd to admit this slant involving archaeologists just going about their work is compelling but i find that it really is. Action-packed, expertly plotted and entertaining from the very beginning, this is an adrenaline-pumping, plausible and gritty thrill ride I highly recommend to those who enjoy intelligent, exhilarating and intriguing stories rich in storycraft. Griffiths continues to craft beautifully woven mystery-thrillers and I am pleased the series is still going strong.

It's always cause for celebration when a new Elly Griffiths novel comes out! The Night Hawks is the lucky thirteenth instalment in Griffiths' archaeologically-themed Dr. Ruth Galloway series, and is just as gripping as her legion of fans have come to expect.
A group of "Night Hawks", amateur but registered metal detectorists, come across the body of a young man, while searching for coins in the dunes of the Blakeney National Nature Reserve.
Dr. Ruth Galloway has returned from Cambridge to head up the archaeology department at the University of North Norfolk, her former boss Phil Trent having retired. She's called in by D.C.I. Harry Nelson to consult when an apparently Bronze-age skeleton is unearthed, together with a hoard of ancient weapons, not far from the current crime scene. Within days, a police officer who was a first responder at Blakeney Head has died suddenly and an apparent murder-suicide occurs at a Norfolk farmhouse, two of the "Night Hawks" again happening on the scene. How are the deaths connected, or is the presence of the same witnesses purely coincidental?
Elly Griffiths' plotting is of a superlative standard, as usual. The Night Hawks has a complex, multi-layered plot with many seemingly separate narrative threads, all drawn cleverly together for a thrilling and satisfying conclusion. There's plenty of archaeological material for Ruth to get her trowel into, in addition to themes involving medical ethics, dysfunctional families and local legend.
The main character, Dr. Ruth Galloway, is well-developed and three-dimensional, balancing the challenges of single parenthood with a demanding career. In many ways, she's pleased to be back in familiar territory at UNN, albeit in a management role, with all that entails. She, 11-year-old Kate and Flint are all pleased to be living back at their Saltmarsh cottage. However, a new colleague is antagonising her and her relationship with D.C.I. Nelson, who's also Kate's father, continues to be somewhat prickly.
The wonderful Cathbad, Ruth's multi-talented druid / intuitive friend, plays an important supporting role throughout The Night Hawks, his personality leaping off the page in every scene in which he appears.
While The Night Hawks would be an engrossing read as a standalone, reading as a continuation of the series is especially rewarding, given the wonderful cast of recurring characters and their evolving relationships.
Highly recommended for all readers who enjoy intelligent character-based mysteries and psychological dramas.
My thanks to the author, Elly Griffiths, publisher Quercus Books and Netgalley, for the opportunity to read and review this title.

And here it is, the latest entry in the series that has cheered up Jan or Feb for so many years now. The Night Hawks is the 13th in Elly Griffiths’ Dr Ruth Galloway series: each one has been a wonderful, involving, engrossing crime story – and also has taken us along in the lives of, first, Ruth, archaeologist and academic extraordinaire, and Harry Nelson, (‘no-one in Norfolk, apart from his wife, calls Nelson ‘Harry’’) the policeman who finds her cases to solve (well, sometimes she finds them for herself). And then also their circle of friends and colleagues and connections: Cathbad and Judy, and Katy, and Phil and Shona, Michelle and the daughters, and a welcome return of Cloughy.

And there’s a new addition: David Brown, a new lecturer working with – or for? – Ruth and SUCH a recognizable type – incredibly annoying and pushy, but somehow getting away with it.

The plot concerns metal detectorists who call themselves the Night Hawks, who have stumbled across a body on a North Norfolk beach.

‘They’re not archaeologists’ says Ruth. ‘They’re amateurs who charge around looking for treasure. They’ve no idea how to excavate or how to read the context. They just dive in and dig up whatever looks shiny.’

‘Wow’ says David. ‘Elitism is alive and well and living in Norfolk.’

As well as the present-day body, a hoard of metal implements turns up, and then an older body, something more in Ruth’s line. And so the investigation is off – the two teams carefully look at what is going on with the two different bodies and plots.

It turns out that Cathbad – resident druid – sometimes goes out with the Night Hawks:

‘He says that they’re genuine questing souls’ says Judy.

Nelson thinks ‘Questing souls indeed. He never knows quite what Judy, his best and most rational officer, makes of her partner’s beliefs. She certainly manages to say this sort of thing with a straight face.’

One of the (many) things I love about this series is that although there is no doubt at all that Ruth is protagonist and heroine and key character, with Nelson a close runner-up, Griffiths is able to get into the heads and thoughts and words of all her characters, and makes them all equally funny and convincing and interesting.





The long relationship between Ruth and Nelson could sound cliched, but it is not: it is done with incredible sensitivity and conviction. Ruth is not some putupon mistress who yearns for her married lover; Nelson is not some cheating husband or neglectful dad. They are all, including Michelle, people with imperfections trying to make the best of a difficult situation. Mind you, that’s not to say that we’re not all waiting each time to find out where Elly Griffiths will take the plotline next – my own fear is that she ever settles it for good then she will stop writing the series, which would be AWFUL, so I am (mostly) happy with the long-term lack of resolution.

[The only consolation if she ended the story would be that Griffiths also writes the Brighton series, the Justice series for Young Adults, and now has started up a third, featuring Detective Harbinder Kaur - you can find posts on some of these if you click on the Griffiths tag below]

It's a complicated plot, with the extremely sinister Black Dog Farm at the centre of it, and a family with more secrets, violence and hatred than even your usual crime book. It is tense and involving and, as always, very funny at times.





I always end up quoting from the books a lot:

She can never remember people’s names [at the schoolgate] and, when she can, she worries that it’s because she’s recently arrested them.

And:

‘All the family are fishermen. Except my uncle. He’s the black sheep.’

‘What does he do?’ says Nelson.

‘He’s a policeman.’

If you've never read these books - lucky you. You've got such a series of treats ahead of you...  

A year ago when I covered the previous Ruth book, I discovered what a rich source Pinterest was for great archaeologist looks, so am sharing some more with you now… you can look back at the earlier post for more.

The Dr Ruth Galloway books get better as the series goes on.  This latest one is full of tension, and the plot is  complex, thrilling and taut.  Ruth has moved back to her house on the Saltmarsh with her daughter Kate and has taken up a role as head of Archaeology in North Norfolk, having said goodbye to her partner, Frank.

Life is getting back to normal and she is enjoying her new role, even though she is not sure about one of her new lecturers, David Brown but it's not long before a body has been washed ashore nearby and then a grisly murder of two people in their farmhouse not long after.  This story has plenty of atmosphere and is quite scary at times with a big black dog on the prowl and things get bad for Ruth and Harry.

I loved this book, it's so nice to be re-acquainted with the main characters of Ruth, Nelson, Cathbad, Judy and Cloughie.

This is a great read that was once again made me feel part of the story, as I live in Norfolk. 
The Night Hawks, a group of amateur archaeologists are out one night looking for items when they discover a body. 
Ruth is asked to take a look and Nelson at first thinks that Taylor's death is accidental drowning, but a second death suggests murder.
There’s also the large black dog being spotted in the area which people are saying is the legend Black Shuck. 
Ruth gets drawn deeper into the investigations and it’s clear there’s danger around Black Dog Farm. 
This is a great mystery thriller. 
Thanks to Quercus books and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book.

Elly Griffiths, whose real name is Domenica de Rosa, has created an endearing heroine in the person of Ruth Galloway, an English archaeologist who, over the course of a dozen novels, has managed to find herself at the centre of murder mysteries where the corpses are considerably more recent than the ones she normally excavates. She is a senior lecturer at the fictional University of North Norfolk, and the novels are set in and around the north and west of Norfolk. Griffiths uses real locations like King's Lynn, Blakeney and Sheringham, and has also constructed a reliably entertaining cast of supporting players, principally Ruth's once-upon-a-time lover, a refreshingly old fashioned married police detective called Harry Nelson. They have a child, Kate, who lives with Ruth, while Harry remains more-or-less happily married to Michelle, with whom he also has children.

In the thirteenth book in the series, The Night Hawks, we have the characters who long time readers of the series will recognise, including the middle aged druid who calls himself Cathbad. His real name is Michael Malone, but he can usually be relied upon to bring to bring a touch of the supernatural - imagined or otherwise - to the proceedings. The Night Hawks in this tale aren't remotely sinister, despite their name. They are group of men whose hobby is traversing the ancient Norfolk landscape with their metal detectors, searching for buried artifacts. They operate at night, because it is quieter and they are less likely to be disturbed.

They get the story started with a classic Elly Griffiths trope - the finding of a Bronze Age hoard, including an ancient skeleton, alongside a body that is much more recently deceased. While the older gentleman can wait his turn to be studied and catalogued, the young man's body is whisked off to King's Lynn for the attention of the police pathologist.

Shortly after the grim discovery, the police are called to a remote farmhouse a few miles inland, where there are reports of gunshots being heard. This time, there is no doubt about the identity or the cause of death of two dead people found inside Black Dog Farmhouse. Dr Douglas Noakes and his wife Linda are dead from gunshot wounds, and it appears to be a clear case of murder-suicide. This clear cut diagnosis becomes rather more tenuous when questions are raised about firearms technicalities, despite an apparent suicide note being found.

The plot becomes pleasantly complicated from this point on. The late Dr and Mrs Noakes had two children, from whom they had become estranged, but was the separation bitter enough to provoke murder? Noakes was not a GP, but a research scientist, and it seems that he had been working with a Cambridge lab developing vaccines. Was this why one of the rooms at Black Dog Farmhouse was kitted out like a doctor's surgery, complete with bed? The dead young man - the twentieth century one - is eventually identified as Jem Taylor, a 25 year-old from Cromer, who had only recently been released from prison.

There is another murder. This time the victim is a member of The Night Hawks, a retired teacher with connections to several of the people in the story. He has been battered over the head with a lump of rock, and his death further complicates matters.

Elly Griffiths has great fun by introducing some 'spookery' by way of a local legend - that of Black Shuck. Tales of a ghostly hellhound are spread far and wide through English folklore, and this Norfolk version is equally menacing. Like all literary amateur sleuths, Ruth Galloway's involvement with active police investigations is pretty implausible, but delightfully so. The odd relationship between Ruth, Harry Nelson and his wife makes for an intriguing read, and added to the impeccably researched location details, The Night Hawks provides a thoroughly enjoyable and gripping few hours of entertainment.

Well, this was certainly packed full of murder! Which I very much enjoyed.

This was the first Ruth Galloway novel I’ve read but I don’t think it will be the last. It was fast-paced but didn’t miss a beat and despite dipping in mid-series with no prior knowledge of the characters, I was able to read it as a complete standalone. A well-written crime mystery with a plot that is intelligent and engaging.

Oh, and I love Cathbad!

Thank you for the ARC.

The Night Hawks has a great cast of characters, and many are written in such a way that you are kept guessing until the end as to what their true personality is.

The main characters, Dr Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson, will be familiar to Elly Griffiths fans. But if you haven't read any of them before, you can still pick up this book and enjoy it as a standalone novel.

I liked the fact that the book pulls you into the characters very quickly, and you are soon interested in their back stories, conflicts and so on. Descriptions of the landscape of Norfolk, switching between being beautiful and desolate, are also great to read.

So I enjoyed the writing in the book before even considering the plot! The plot is centred on a group of metal detectorists, the Night Hawks of the title, who discover a dead body on the beach while out metal detecting at night.

Two more bodies are discovered at a farm house soon afterwards, in what appears to be a murder-suicide of the couple that lived there.

As the book progresses, the reader learns more about the links between these people, and various of the metal detectorists involved in the Night Hawks too. There are many revelations that I did not expect, particularly regarding the character of David, who is a new recruit of Ruth's at the local university.

At first, I didn't feel as "gripped" as I have done when reading other books. But as it developed, I did find myself becoming more interested in both the characters and the plot. 

The book is a really enjoyable read and well written, and I can imagine that many people who have not read any of Griffiths' other Ruth Galloway books would be inspired to take a look after reading The Night Hawks.

Dr Ruth Galloway is back in her cottage in Norfolk and is ready to start work after receiving a promotion. It is not long, however, before paths cross with DCI Nelson when a body is found washed up on the beach by a group of metal detectorists known as the Night Hawks. Thought to be an unfortunate asylum seeker, this theory is soon quashed when he is identified as Jem Taylor, a local man who has recently been released from prison. A second incident is declared when the bodies of a man and woman are found at Black Dog Farm. Initially believed to be a murder-suicide, evidence later puts this in doubt and when the body of a large dog is found buried in the garden, talk begins of the Black Shuck, a legendary dog who is seen as the harbinger of death…


The thirteenth book in the Ruth Galloway series sees Ruth back where she belongs but this time she is now the head of department after the previous incumbent, Phil, has taken retirement. Long time readers of this series will find some of Ruth’s comments about grants and funding amusing as she realises after all her years of berating Phil for similar comments, she is now saying the same things! It is these small things that make me love this series so much, the characters feeling like old friends who I look forward to catching up with every year! New character, David Brown, is an interesting addition to the mix. A new employee at the university, Ruth isn’t sure what to make of him and neither are we as readers. He is definitely someone I would like to see in subsequent books as he definitely has the potential to replace Phil as Ruth’s sparring partner!


As has been the theme throughout the series, we see Ruth’s complicated relationship with DCI Nelson impacting on both her personal and professional life. We have gone way past the ‘will they, won’t they?’ aspect of their lives, but Elly Griffiths still manages to keep us guessing as to what will happen between them. The ending of this book, in particular, has left me wondering what is on the horizon.


The setting of the Ruth Galloway books has always been one of their strengths and the coast and countryside of Norfolk has again provided a superb backdrop to the plot. It was easy to visualise the murder scene at the desolate Black Dog Farm, the eerie atmosphere giving credence to the legend of the Black Shuck. This also gave us the opportunity to enter the world of everyone’s favourite druid, Cathbad, who finds himself involved with the Night Hawks on their excavations.


Elly Griffiths never lets me down and The Night Hawks is another superb book in this series. I hope it won’t be too long before we find out what happens as a result of the final scene!

The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths is the 13th book in the Dr. Ruth Galloway series.  Once again Elly Griffiths deliveries a intriguing mystery that has the reader staying up way too late in order to read one more chapter.  The mystery is compelling but just as captivating are the continuing and developing storylines of the returning characters.  It is so refreshing to have a series where both the mystery and the characters are so absorbing.  I hope there are many more Ruth Galloway books to be written and I look forward to reading them.

In this, the thirteenth book in the Dr Ruth Galloway series, we have a smattering of Norfolk legends including a menacing black dog to spice up the seemingly open and shut case of a murder suicide in a remote house. 

DCI Harry Nelson is never one to leap to the obvious solution to a death and certainly not now when his superior is mentioning the dreaded retirement word at every turn. He's already engaged Ruth's help with a bronze age burial site and so the fated pair continue their merry dance whilst the rest of the team look on.

I love this series, the characters really are outstanding and Elly Griffiths weaves a wonderful tale each and every time.

I've got Elly Griffiths to thank for lots of sleepless nights over the years. Whenever I pick up a novel by her the narrative grabs me so completely that I can't put it down until I've read the very last word. And then the plot keeps going round and round in my mind as I think of all the things I should have been able to work out for myself.
All the regulars are here: Ruth, Nelson, Cathbad, Flint, Thing, Kate and the others. They are all like old friends to me now.
Elly Griffiths gets better and better. I can't recommend this book highly enough.

‘The Night Hawks’ by Elly Griffiths is the 13th story in a mystery series set in Norfolk, featuring forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway. It’s the first I’ve read and I loved it so much, I’m  going to go back to the start and read them all. I had no problem jumping in at this point though, as the author made so much of the backstory clear, with little pieces of information here and there. 

Ruth is Head of Archaeology at the University and dealing with her new responsibilities and her life as a single parent is hard enough, but again she finds herself called upon to help out Nelson and the local police force. When a body is washed up on the beach, suspicion that Bronze Age artefacts may be found there too means her expertise is required. The discovery of two bodies in a remote farm, and a local legend of the Black Shuck complicates her work further. As the clues mount, and suspects multiply, can Ruth and Nelson solve the case before more tragedy ensues. 

‘The Night Hawks’ is an excellent mystery, full of surprises and intrigue. I loved the Norfolk setting and the local myths and legends becoming a part of the story. The archaeological details made it all the more fascinating and kept me hooked. Ruth Galloway is a fascinating character, with insecurities and repressed passions. Her relationship with Nelson is, on the surface, professional and their personal interaction seems limited to discussions about their daughter, Kate. But we all know they want more. The ensemble cast works so well and this series could make a fantastic TV series. I look forward to many more stories. 

I was given this ARC to review.

In this the thirteenth book in the Ruth Galloway series we find that Ruth has returned to Norfolk and her cottage on the fens along with her daughter Kate having decided that marriage to Frank Barker was not what she wanted.
She has taken over as Head of Archeology, at the University of North Norfolk, from her old boss Phil Trent who has retired.
One of her first decisions as the new head of department is to hire a new lecturer David Brown.. On a personal level Ruth finds him rather irritating and pushy, he seems to want to be involved in everything.
A local group of metal detectorists, known as the Night Hawks, out searching for buried treasure, discover a body on the beach.
DCI Harry Nelson is called in. At first he thinks the dead man might be an asylum seeker.
Further inquiries show he`s actually a local lad Jem Taylor. Jem`s not long out of prison, was his drowning accidental or could there be more to it?
The Night Hawks have unearthed some coins and weapons nearby along with skeletal remains, Nelson uses the find to call in Ruth.
David Brown is excited by the find and manages to get himself invited alongside Ruth. IT seems he knows some of the Night Hawks.
The next night a couple of the Hawks are out again and hear shots at Black Dog Farm. An isolated farmhouse owned by Cambridge researcher Dr Douglas Noakes and his wife Linda.
It looks like a murder-suicide and the discovery of a note seems to confirm this but the mention of a body in the garden has Nelson once again calling in Ruth and her team to dig up the garden. David Brown somehow manages to tag along again.
As the case progresses Nelson is having doubts, he begins to feel that the whole scene has been staged. He starts to look more closely at the Noakes family, their associates and the Night Hawks who always seem to be around.
This is a cleverly plotted storyline with lots of red herrings that kept me guessing.
Murders, shootings, hostage taking and of course the characters I have come to love hearing about Cathbad, Clough, Ruth and Nelson.
I highly recommend this series, Dr Ruth Galloway fans will not be disappointed!
Thanks to Netgalley and Quercus books for the chance to read this as an ARC in return for my honest review.

This is the latest outing for Ruth Galloway, and her team.
Ruth is now back at her old university, and is head of department, after the departure of Phil. She also has a very keen new lecturer, David Brown, who has his own secrets.
The Night Hawks are a group of detectorists who find a body on a beach, and also an ancient burial site.
As Ruth investigates the burial and Nelson investigates the body their paths intersect again.
Add in a mythical large black dog (The Black Shuck), that foretells death, a scientist with secrets, and a murder/suicide, not to mention the usual cast of characters, including a guest appearance by Cloughie, and the scene is set for an engaging read. There is even a mention of The Archers!
The book does not disappoint, and the climax is dramatic, moving on the story of Ruth, Nelson and Michele.
I look forward to the next chapter.

Thanks to Netgalley and Quercus Books for the opportunity to read this book.