I’ve followed the series sporadically, enough to remember that Ruth had a fleeting affair with DCI Harry Nelson, and is now the mother of cute Kate. Griffiths handles the sprawling soap opera of a bunch of coppers and their partners in rural East Anglia well, and their love lives never feel in danger of swamping the story. Things go from bad to worse when a local mother of four goes missing from her own doorstep and the press are all over that like a rash, after mostly ignoring the disappearance and deaths of the rough sleepers, but no surprise there. Nelson, Judy and the laddish DS Dave Clough are all dancing to the tune of their boss, Superintendent Jo Archer, who isn’t pleased that little progress seems to be being made with any of the investigations. Matters become complicated when two homeless men are knifed to death, one on the steps of the police station. DS Judy Johnson does her best to get information out of the local rough sleepers, who – understandably – are wary of any involvement with the police. I had to fight Sharon, my co-editor, for the pleasure of being first to read Elly Griffith’s latest outing for archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway, and only the fact that there was an underground angle to this one enabled me to wrest it out of her paws.
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