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Exit Wounds is a thrilling anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Elly Griffiths, Dennis Lehane, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.

Forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway is in her late thirties. She lives happily alone with her cats in a remote area near Norfolk, land that was sacred to its Iron Age inhabitants—not quite earth, not quite sea. But her routine is harshly upended when a child’s bones are found on a desolate beach. Detective Chief Inspector Nelson calls Ruth for help, believing the bones to be the remains of Lucy Downey, a little girl who went missing a decade ago and whose abductor taunts him with bizarre letters referencing ritual sacrifice, Shakespeare, and the Bible.

Brighton, 1950. The body of a girl is found cut into three pieces. Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is convinced the killer is mimicking a famous magic trick—the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, is an old war friend of Edgar’s. They served together in a shadowy unit called the Magic Men, a special ops troop that used stage tricks to confound the enemy. Max is on the traveling show circuit, touring seaside towns with ventriloquists, sword-swallowers and dancing girls.

It’s Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about magician Max Mephisto’s star turn in Aladdin. But the holiday cheer is lost on DI Edgar Stephens. He’s investigating the murder of two children, Annie and Mark, who were found in the woods alongside a trail of candy—a horrifying scene eerily reminiscent of “Hansel and Gretel.” Edgar has plenty of leads. Annie, a dark child, wrote gruesome plays based on the Grimms’ fairy tales. Does the key to the case lie in her final script? Or does the macabre staging of the bodies point to the theater and the capricious cast of Aladdin?

Elly Griffiths has always written short stories to experiment with different voices and genres as well as to explore what some of her fictional creations such as Ruth Galloway, Harbinder Kaur, and Max Mephisto might have done outside of the novels. The Man in Black gathers these bite-sized tales all together in one splendid volume.

The new decade is going well for Edgar Stephens and his good friend the magician Max Mephisto. Edgar is happily married, with children, and promoted to Superintendent. Max has found fame and stardom in America, though he's now back in England for a funeral, and a prospective movie job. Edgar's new wife, though - former detective Emma - is restless and frustrated at home, knowing she was the best detective on the team. But when an investigation into a string of disappearing girls begins, Emma sees her chance to get back in the action. She begins her own hunt.

Newly minted PI Emma Holmes and her partner Sam Collins are just settling into their business when they’re chosen for a high-profile case: retired music-hall star Verity Malone hires them to find out who poisoned her husband, a theater impresario. Verity herself has been accused of the crime. The only hitch—the Brighton police are already on the case, putting Emma in direct competition with her husband, police superintendent Edgar Stephens.

It’s the holiday season, and Max Mephisto and his daughter Ruby have landed a headlining gig at the Brighton Hippodrome, the biggest theater in the city, an achievement only slightly marred by the less-than-savory supporting act: a tableau show of naked “living statues”. But when one of the girls goes missing and turns up dead not long after, Max and Ruby realize there’s something far more sinister than obscenity afoot in the theater.

Just back from maternity leave, forensic archeologist Ruth is finding it hard to juggle motherhood and work when she is called in to investigate human bones that have surfaced on a remote Norfolk beach. The presence of DCI Harry Nelson, the married father of her daughter, does not help. The bones, six men with their arms bound, turn out to date back to World War II, a desperate time on this stretch of coastland. As Ruth and Nelson investigate, Home Guard veteran Archie Whitcliffe reveals the existence of a secret the old soldiers have vowed to protect with their lives.

When a child’s remains are found at a demolition site—a former children’s home in Norwich—forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway is called in to examine the bones. She quickly notes that the skull is missing. Is this a Roman-era ritual sacrifice, or is the killer closer at hand? Ruth and DCI Nelson seek out the priest who served as the home’s operator. Father Hennessey reports that two children had gone missing there, about forty years earlier. They were never found. Is this one of them, finally unearthed?

When Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop, she finds the museum’s curator lying dead on the floor. Soon after, the museum’s wealthy owner is also found dead, in his stables. DCI Harry Nelson is called in to investigate, thrusting him into Ruth’s path once more. When threatening letters come to light, events take an even more sinister turn. But as Ruth’s friends become involved, where will her loyalties lie? A

El trimestre de primavera ya ha llegado y Justina está de vuelta en el internado Highbury House. Cuando le asignan cuidar del señor Arthur en la Guarida del Contrabandista, una extraña casa al otro lado de las marismas que dicen está encantada, Justina enseguida se da cuenta de que no todo es lo que parece en ese lugar.

Un equipo de arqueólogos que investiga la erosión costera en la bahía norte de Norfolk se pone en contacto con la doctora Galloway al hallar seis cuerpos enterrados al pie de un acantilado, todos ellos muy deteriorados por el paso del tiempo. Ruth y el detective Harry Nelson se unen una vez más para desentrañar el pasado, aunque la situación es de lo más incómoda, porque Nelson debe evitar a toda costa que su esposa Michelle sospeche de la relación que hay entre ellos dos.

Sirvientas desaparecidas, maestros sospechosos y una tormenta de nieve... Para una niña intrépida y superinteligente como Justina Jones es solo el comienzo de un primer trimestre en el escalofriante colegio Highbury House. Cuando la madre de Justina muere, su padre la envía a Highbury House, un colegio privado solo para chicas de la alta sociedad. Su padre es abogado, especializado en juicios por asesinato, y está demasiado ocupado para cuidar de ella él solo.

En Norfolk, un hallazgo arqueológico se convierte en la clave para resolver un crimen del pasado.La arqueóloga forense Ruth Galloway regresa con un caso en el que los ritos paganos de la época celta y romana serán la clave para resolver un asesinato. Cuando los obreros que están llevando a cabo las tareas de demolición de una vieja casa en Norwich descubren el esqueleto incompleto de un niño, la arqueóloga forense Ruth Galloway intenta esclarecer su procedencia.

Una novela que te calará hasta los huesos... Las húmedas marismas señalan el límite entre la vida y la muerte. Adéntrate en sus turbias aguas de la mano de la arqueóloga forense Ruth Galloway. La profesora de Arqueología Forense Ruth Galloway vive en una pequeña casa junto a una marisma en el condado de Norfolk. Se trata de un área remota donde se unen mar y tierra, considerada como un lugar sagrado por los hombres de la Edad de Hierro.

In einer mondhellen Nacht wird eine junge Frau auf den Feldern Norfolks erwürgt. Inspector Nelson und sein Team ermitteln fieberhaft, doch können einen zweiten Mord nicht verhindern. Eine Priesterin der englischen Kirche wird tot aufgefunden. Die polizeiliche Beraterin und Archäologin Dr. Ruth Galloway sieht sofort eine Verbindung zu einem Briefeschreiber, der mit anonymen Nachrichten Priesterinnen tyrannisiert. Ruth und Nelson graben in der Vergangenheit und stoßen auf alte Relikte und dunkle Geheimnisse. Dabei kommen sie dem Täter gefährlich nah auf die Spur.

El 31 de octubre de 2009, la arqueóloga forense Ruth Galloway debe supervisar la apertura de un ataúd que contiene los huesos de un obispo medieval en King’s Lynn. Pero cuando llega al museo Smith, Ruth encuentra al curador del museo, Neil Topham inconsciente al lado del ataúd. Inmediatamente avisa a los servicios de emergencia, y así su camino se cruza de nuevo con el del inspector Harry Nelson.

Dan Golding, un antiguo compañero de estudios de Ruth, muere en un incendio en su casa y todo parece indicar que se trata de un asesinato a sangre fría. Solo dos días después de su fallecimiento, Ruth recibe una carta de Dan en la que explicaba que hizo un asombroso descubrimiento arqueológico, pero también expresaba su miedo. Poco después el decano de la Universidad de Peddle, donde Dan daba clases, pide la colaboración de Ruth.

Empieza un nuevo trimestre y una niña nueva capta la atención de Justina. Letitia no ha estado antes en la escuela y no le importan las reglas que siguen el resto de las niñas. Misteriosamente, ¡a los profesores tampoco parece importarles que no las siga! Tras un banquete a medianoche en los establos de Highbury House y el avistamiento de un fantasma vagando por los jardines del colegio, una de las amigas de Justina desaparece.