The house at sea's end

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390 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 2011 by Quercus.

ISBN:
978-1-84916-365-1
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OCLC Number:
721922542

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4 stars (1 review)

A team of archaeologists, investigating coastal erosion on the north Norfolk coast, unearth six bodies buried at the foot of a cliff. How long have they been there? What could have happened to them? Forensics expert Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson are drawn together again to unravel the past. Tests reveal that the bodies have lain, preserved in the sand, for sixty years. The mystery of their deaths stretches back to the Second World War, a time when Great Britain was threatened by invasion. But someone wants the truth of the past to stay buried, and will go to any lengths to keep it that way ... even murder.

4 editions

reviewed The house at sea's end by Elly Griffiths (Ruth Galloway mystery -- 3.)

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4 stars

Not quite up to the first two?

It's good, don't get me wrong, but it's formulaic and when everything unfolds at the end the villain gets the kind of verbal diarrhea we used time see in the old Bond films instead of just getting on with it. And it's always their undoing, isn't it? I've always wondered if real-life serial killers do this.

Otherwise, of course, it was a good read. On to the next one!

Subjects

  • Germans
  • Forensic archaeology
  • Fiction
  • Veterans
  • Crimes against
  • Women forensic scientists

Places

  • England
  • Great Britain
  • Norfolk
  • Norfolk (England)