While Nelson resents it, he elected to stay with his wife Michelle.

Ruth has had several relationships since Nelson, and is now seeing the American Frank Barker again. Harry’s wife Michelle allows Harry to see Kate but insists that Harry only see Ruth in a professional capacity. Ruth is also occupied with getting her daughter Kate off to school for the first time and learning how to be a “school mom.” Kate, the daughter Ruth had with Detective Chief Inspector Harry Nelson, is now turning five. In the course of investigating what might have actually happened to Fred Blackstock, the team discovers that some members of the family are opposed to the sale of the land for site development could they be behind this odd discovery? An inquiry reveals that Fred Blackstock did indeed go down in a plane in World War II, but not the plane in which his body was just found. The body is identified as Frederick Blackstock, who originally came from “a “posh Norfolk family,” descendants of whom still occupy their ancestral property on the edge of the saltmarsh. Although an American airbase was located in the area, Ruth doesn’t think this particular downing was just an accident the body of this man has a bullet hole in the middle of his forehead. Ruth is called upon again when a plane from World War II, complete with a body inside of an American airman, is found during the course of site development for luxury condos. The two teamed up to solve several crimes since Ruth is an expert on bones, and now Ruth is seconded to the Serious Crime Unit, which is headed by Nelson. In the first six books, we met Ruth Galloway, now 45, who is a self-described overweight forensic archeologist at the (fictional) University of North Norfolk, and Detective Chief Inspector Harry Nelson of the Norfolk Police.

The seventh book in the Ruth Galloway Mystery Series begins two years after the previous book. Note: Spoilers for previous books in this series.

The ghost fields by elly griffiths