The story would probably be a reasonable one that you could see working on TV (maybe this is the author's aim) being your standard situation crime-drama. But she won’t remember it,’ Ruth wailed to her best friend Shona, herself five months pregnant and glowing with impending maternity. In some ways this edition feels less structured or perhaps more far flung with plot, but I didn't mind. At the end of book one I was worried I’d stop liking the books but she and Ruth’s changes to accommodate her makes me love the books even more.

Here we have mysterious deaths, drug smuggling, mysticism and enough horses to make a Dick Francis fan neigh with glee; but the actual mystery is almost incidental to the various inter-personal relationships between this circle of characters and I never felt particularly gripped by these relationships. As her convictions are tested, Ruth and Nelson must discover how Aboriginal skulls, drug smuggling, and the mystery of “The Dreaming” hold the answers to these deaths, as well as the keys to their own survival. This book had so many different scenarios and plot lines going on that I marveled that Griffiths was able to tie them up so seamlessly at the end.

Looking into the death and the group behind the letters leaves DCI Nelson and his team stretched to the limit with the altogether more pressing matter of tackling the drugs which are proliferating the county of Norfolk. Lord Danforth Smith couldn't be more pleased to welcome his long deceased ancestor to his museum but it seems he is alone with these feelings for he has a growing number of those in opposition to this transference and more than this. Harry is Catholic and desperately wanted Kate christened, so much so that he made arrangements for the ceremony.

Although the two deaths look like natural causes it is not thought likely and when threatening letters turn up the case gets even more sinister. One of the characters that is married gets pregnant and just ends things with her lover and it doesn't cross her mind that it might be his or she is so unethical that wants to bestow the child to her husband even though it might not be his! Although I found it took a few chapters to get fully into the storyline, it’s beautifully paced, and each chapter read seemed to contain more action and revelations than the one before. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. We're interested in bones, we don't think that's morbid, and we certainly don't have nightmares about it.

I love encountering new words and this book presented me with "murmuration," which is defined as "the phenomenon that results when hundreds, sometimes thousands, of starlings fly in swooping, intricately coordinated patterns through the sky.