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Violence
Some
A murder investigation; WWII deaths and their aftermath; some present-day threat
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild romantic content; Ruth's relationship with Nelson continues to complicate
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
The long reach of wartime decisions; the specific weight of a secret kept for sixty years by a family that benefited from it
What this book is about
When a drainage ditch is dug in a Norfolk field, workers unearth a World War II Spitfire with its pilot still inside — apparently intact after sixty years in the waterlogged earth. Dr. Ruth Galloway is called in to examine the remains. The pilot belongs to a prominent local family, and as Ruth and DCI Nelson investigate, they discover that some members of that family had reasons to want the pilot to stay buried. Elly Griffiths's sixth Ruth Galloway mystery is her most historically layered, using the specific preservation properties of Norfolk peat to build a case that stretches from the 1940s to the present.
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sixth of the Ruth Galloway series
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