A Baby's Bones
$15.09
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2018
Summary
Archaeologist Sage Westfield has been called in to excavate a sixteenth-century well, and expects to find little more than soil and the odd piece of pottery. But the disturbing discovery of the bones of a woman and new-born baby make it clear that she has stumbled onto an historical crime scene, one that is interwoven with an unsettling local legend of witchcraft and unrequited love.
Yet there is more to the case than a four-hundred-year-old mystery.
The owners of a nearby cot…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781785656217 |
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| ISBN-10: | 178565621X |
| Author: | Rebecca Alexander |
| Publisher: | Titan Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Titan Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 367g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Sage Westfield |
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Critics Review
“Alexander fuses the secrets of Renaissance-era alchemy and the knowledge wielded by modern archeology … keeps the stakes high throughout.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Readers who favor historical mysteries as well as those who enjoy modern forensic science will enjoy this one. Fans of Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway series will definitely want to meet Sage, as will those who have followed Erin Hart’s Haunted Ground, also featuring a forensic archaeologist.”
—Booklist
“In a departure from her supernatural crime novels (The Secrets of Time and Fate), Alexander carefully constructs an intricately plotted mystery that links story lines of madness and murder. Bittersweet and haunting, this suspenseful story is driven by complex, flawed characters. Fans of Kate Ellis’s ‘Wesley’ mysteries and Elly Griffith’s atmospheric ‘Ruth Galloway’ novels will enjoy the combination of archaeology and history.”
—Library Journal, starred review
“The mystery deepens at a nice pace, keeping me reading to find out more and trying to guess who was behind it all … one of my favorite reads of the year.”
—Criminal Element
Rebecca Alexander
Rebecca Alexander is a psychologist and writer. Rebecca wrote her first book aged nineteen, and since then has been runner up in the Mslexia novel writing competition and the Yeovil Literary Prize 2012. She is the author of the Jackdaw Hammond series of supernatural crime novels published by Del Rey, The Secrets of Life and Death (2013), The Secrets of Blood and Bone (2014) and The Secrets of Time and Fate (2016). She lives in Devon.
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