Ruth Galloway is back, and happily she has returned to home turf in North Norfolk in this latest Elly Griffiths novel, the 13th in the series. A body is found on the beach by a bunch of metal detectorists who call themselves The Night Hawks, and soon DCI Harry Nelson is at the scene to take a closer look. Another find nearby brings Ruth there too – the treasure hunters uncovered ‘a lot of old metal’ and right in the middle of it, some bones. A murder-suicide muddies the waters further in this deftly plotted slice of escapism.
