![]() ![]() A clever ending compensates for the frequent narrative-slowing switches between Harry’s and Ruth’s cases. ![]() ![]() Griffiths astutely plays on modern anxieties about working parents and childcare. Ruth has excavated a body from the grounds of Norwich Castle, which was once a prison the body may be that of Victorian murderess Jemima Green, who was hanged. Meanwhile, the self-described “Childminder” begins kidnapping young children from their homes. Harry Nelson, is closing in on a 37-year-old woman who may have killed her three infants. As Ruth seeks clues lost long ago, her former lover, Det. Despite the damning folktales, Ruth suspects that Mother Hook was innocent-a belief that clashes with Mark’s vision of a monstrous child murderer. In Mary Higgins Clark Award–winner Griffiths’s competent sixth mystery featuring archeologist Ruth Galloway (after 2013’s A Dying Fall), Mark Gates, a TV researcher for a British documentary series called Women Who Kill, takes an interest in Ruth after she uncovers the bones of the notorious Mother Hook, a Victorian-era child minder accused of killing at least 20 children in Norwich. ![]()
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