The Stone Circle by Elly Griffiths

I think Dr. Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist, must be my favourite fiction character ever! An unlikely heroine in a murder mystery series: She is a single mum, lives alone on the Salt Marshes at the back of nowhere, enjoys a glass or two of wine, isn’t a perfect size ten, worries about her weight but does nothing about it, has a cat and a complicated love life, but she gets pulled into unsolved murders, past and present, by the police due to her expertise in archaeology and dating bones.

The stories themselves are expertly written with all the facets of a story that I love: murder, mystery, history, archaeology, suspense, romance, the supernatural and this one was no exception. The Stone Circle blended the past with the present, old solved murders with a new murder case, excavation of a henge, strange letters that echoed of an old, difficult case. Missing children, bones and the hint of something other worldly. It pulled all my favourite characters into the story because of their relationship to the case and each other.

The Stone Circle was as brilliant as every story in the series and I couldn’t put it down till the murder had been solved. I can’t wait for the next one…