The Chalk Pit: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 9

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It’s also a very alive story, with little snippets about the characters like, Ruth once attended a fancy dress party as Angel Islington, due to being a fan of the London Underground! From the first pages of Crossing Places (the first book in the Ruth Galloway series) I knew I had found a friend in Ruth: The sheer honesty of her character; her fierce intelligence, her struggle to fit into the world around her; the glorious imperfection of her life; her deep love for the Salt Marsh; the way she gives the bodies she investigates the closure they deserve with a blend of science and an open mind for the unseen. Immediately next door is a housing development construction site, announced on the fence banners as “Chalk Glade” and as yet only an empty white pit. One of the most famous Wolds sites for butterflies and in the top 5 sites in the county with very large counts of Marbled White and Common Blue.

Seehr lesenswert, da ist der Winter gar nicht mehr schlimm, wenn man Ruth-Galloway-Krimis zur Hand hat! The site has close access to the M11 main road and is just 30 miles north of the M25 and 15 miles south of Cambridge City. Perhaps the novelty is all the more likely to wear off, and yet I feel a renewed sense of discovery and quiet ownership of this obscure patch, the chalk alcove and the ivy arch and the carpet of moss.

These two chalk quarries once provided hard chalk to build Cambridge University colleges and lime for cement. Eighteen years after arriving at the University of North Norfolk and still going it alone in the Forensic Archaeology department, Dr Ruth Galloway has acquired quite a name for herself with two television appearances and frequent involvement in her capacity as an expert seconded to the Serious Crime Unit of Northumbria Police. Local academic Martin Kellerman knows all about the tunnels and their history – but can his assertions of cannibalism and ritual killing possibly be true? The reserve is a haven for butterfly species, with the holly blue, painted lady, green-veined white, common blue, speckled wood, peacock, brimstone, orange tip and comma all found on site.

Nature has reclaimed the site and woodland has developed; large ash trees now tower over field maples below. Run by an ex-convict who has now found religion a subsequent disappearance raises the stakes and Nelson, Judy and Cloughie are forced to venture deeper. I realize, and later confirm on Google maps, that this is a very small pocket of wildness, dense as it is with turns and life. Whenever I read a book from the Ruth Galloway series, it is never just about the crime at hand and this book is no different. I’m hungry for the next curve, the new fold in the tapestry of green or rise in the topography of the reclaimed quarry.The Chalkpit Cassette Club (CCC) is an exclusive and limited edition physical cassette tape imprint brought to you by Chalkpit Records.

The northern slope, nearest to human habitation, includes exotic shrubs like holm oak and sweet bay whilst the south-west corner contains more native woodland species like wild cherry, field maple and spindle.It was peaceful and young teenagers were also using it as a picnic area which was also lovely to see. By car – There a small amount of roadside parking near the site, we would recommend arriving by bus, bike or on foot. A kind of manhunt but after rather useless efforts an the streets it continues - but only underground.