Cathbad has been house and cat sitting for a friend when one evening the
cat escapes from the house. He follows it into a nearby graveyard where
he sees a woman in white with a blue cloak. Later that evening the
woman is found dead in a roadside ditch. DCI Harry Nelson and his team
begin the investigation. They find out that the woman had been a
patient at a nearby rehab sanctuary.
The autopsy shows that there was cleaning fluid on the victim's hands?
Why would that be? Nelson finds stone cleaning fluid near one of the
headstones in the graveyard.
At the same time, Ruth Galloway, Nelson's forensic archeologist friend
meets with a former classmate who is now a priest. She has been
receiving threatening letters. Is it a coincidence, Nelson wonders,
after Ruth speaks to him about them. Ruth meets her friend who has come
to the area to take a course. The letters appear very threatening.
One evening Nelson's wife Michelle is attacked in a cemetery near where
the victim had been found. Fortunately she is not seriously hurt. But
later that same night one of the priests on the course with Ruth's
friend is killed. An interesting aspect of the victim is that she looks
similar in appearance to both Michelle and the first victim.
Nelson is surprised when a suspect, who is a patient at the rehab
sanctuary confesses. Has he got his man? Or could the killer still be
out there?
Author Elly Griffiths is very good at building suspense. Once again she
has done so in this murder mystery, which I am sure that you will
enjoy. I look forward to reading the sequel.
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