What I enjoy about Elly Griffiths’s novels is that I’m not perched on the edge of my seat
expecting someone to pounce out at me and I don’t
have a desperate need to triple check my locks - Instead I know I can relax in
a comfy chair, with a Kit Kat and a hot chocolate and … just… enjoy.
I revel in the archaeological gems liberally sprinkled
throughout the pages, I adore the characters from the grumpy Nelson to the
colourful Cathbad and I love the mix of mysticism, religion, occultism and
paganism that floats throughout the chapters.
In The Outcast Dead Ruth Galloway our friendly archaeologist
quite by chance finds the skeleton of the infamous Mother Hook – a notorious
child murderer and the last woman to be hung at Norwich castle. Within hours she’s been roped in to working
on a TV Production of Women Who
Kill. However, an American History
expert on Victorian Britain has evidence that Mother Hook was innocent.
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| A Gibbet |
Meanwhile, the father of Ruth’s child DI Harry Nelson
investigates the death of three young brothers who may have died of cot death.
Unfortunately when a young child is abducted from her family home and links to
the family of the dead brothers are found Harry is in a race against time to
rescue the child.
By the way: This is a Gibbet
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