title: The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway Mysteries)
author:  Elly Griffiths 
description: When a child's headless skeleton turns up during an archeological dig in Griffiths's compelling second Ruth Galloway mystery (after 2010's The Crossing Places), Ruth's determination that the bones are of recent origin spurs her special friend, Det. Chief Insp. Harry Nelson, to investigate the Catholic orphanage run by Fr. Patrick Hennessey that once occupied the Norfolk, England, site. Two children disappeared from the orphanage in 1973, though Ruth's study of the bones suggests that the murderer might have ties not to the orphanage but to the site's Roman's origins. Complicating matters are her pregnancy--the result of a one-night stand with Nelson in Crossing--and an escalating series of dangerous pranks meant to scare her off the case. Griffiths nimbly weaves the mythological aspects of her story--particularly the Roman god Janus, who represents doorways as well as beginnings and endings--with the complicated life of her feisty heroine. (Jan.) <br />(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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  Also by Elly Griffiths
  
  
  the dr ruth galloway mysteries
  
  
  The Crossing Places
  
  
  The Janus Stone
  
  
  The House at Sea’s End
  
  
  A Room Full of Bones
  
  
  Dying Fall
  
  
  The Outcast Dead
  
  
  The Ghost Fields
  
  
  The Woman in Blue
  
  
  The Chalk Pit
  
  
  The Dark Angel
  
  
  The Stone Circle
  
  
  The Lantern Men
  
  
  the brighton mysteries
  
  
  The Zig Zag Girl
  
  
  Smoke and Mirrors
  
  
  The Blood Card
  
  
  The Vanishing Box
  
  
  Now You See Them
  
  
  other works
  
  
  The Stranger Diaries
  
  
  The Postscript Murders
  
  
  for children
  
  
  A Girl Called Justice
  
  
  A Girl Called Justice: The Smugglers’ Secret
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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