The discovery of a missing woman's bones force Ruth and Nelson to
finally confront their feelings for each other as they desperately work
to exonerate one of their own in this not-to-be-missed Ruth Galloway
mystery from USA Today bestselling author Elly Griffiths.
When builders discover a human skeleton during a renovation of a café,
they call in archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway, who is preoccupied with the
threatened closure of her department and by her ever-complicated
relationship with DCI Nelson. The bones turn out to be modern--the
remains of Emily Pickering, a young archaeology student who went missing
in 2002. Suspicion soon falls on Emily's Cambridge tutor and also on
another archeology enthusiast who was part of the group gathered the
weekend before she disappeared--Ruth's friend Cathbad.
As they investigate, Nelson and his team uncover a tangled web of
relationships within the archeology group and look for a link between
them and the café where Emily's bones were found. Then, just when the
team seem to be making progress, Cathbad disappears. The trail leads
Ruth a to the Neolithic flint mines in Grimes Graves. The race is on,
first to find Cathbad and then to exonerate him, but will Ruth and
Nelson uncover the truth in time to save their friend?
