Echoes of the Swamp, by Elly Griffiths

The echoes of the swamp
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The arrival of this first novel in an overwhelming saga such as the series around the protagonist Ruth Galloway is great news if it ends up bearing fruit in its natural chain of sequels that have finally arrived in Spain.

Because Elly griffiths is a particular writer arrived at black gender with an impressionist pen that knows how to move the plot from a singular descriptive aspect, towards the setting as part of the suspense, of the tension.

The role chosen for Ruth Galloway, an archaeologist who starts her services for the police with apparent occasionality, helps a lot in this kind of immersion between plot and setting. His performance, his conscientious work and his ability to weave the present with the remnants of the most remote yesterday serve that transforming cause through the great open landscapes, among the atavistic mists of the islands ...

Nothing better than a place like Nortfolk, one of the easternmost counties of the British Isles, to start this journey between the police, the telluric, and the archaeological.

Ruth is a lonely woman, with the company of her cats and the occasional visits of a friend with whom to share some good time with those views of eternity.

But Ruth's peace is broken when Harry Nelson, a police inspector, appears in her life who, knowing of her performance, approaches her to request her help regarding some old bones found. Before Harry's total ignorance, Ruth makes him understand that these skeletal remains are not Lucy Downey, the girl who disappeared years ago, but rather that they belong to a much earlier time.

And yet the collaboration does not end there. Because in the fieldwork around bones, Ruth ends up discovering references to human sacrifices that awaken Harry's intrigue and that they can connect with a dark present.

When a second girl disappears, it seems as if everything is getting married. Ruth's coincidental finding, the investigation into the meaning of the messages found in parallel with the bones ... And that's where those suspicions that inevitably come closer to the environment of Ruth, her colleagues and other scholars like her began to weave together ...

You can now buy the novel Echoes of the Swamp, the first novel by Elly Griffiths, here:

The echoes of the swamp
Available here
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