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When he links a case to an archaeological dis­covery, he breaks curfew to visit Ruth and enlist her help. Meanwhile, Nelson is investigating a series of deaths of women that may or may not be suicide. They struggle to stave off isolation by clapping for frontline workers each evening and befriending a kind neighbor, Zoe, from a distance. Ruth returns to the cot­tage to uncover its meaning as Norfolk’s first cases of Covid-19 make headlines, leaving her and Kate to shelter in place there. Three years after her mother’s death, Ruth is finally sorting through her things when she finds a curious relic: a decades-old photograph of her own Norfolk cottage- before she lived there-with a peculiar inscription on the back.

Agent: Kirby Kim, Janklow & Nesbit Assoc.Pandemic lockdowns have Ruth Galloway feeling isolated from everyone but a new neighbor-until Nelson comes calling, investigating a decades-long string of murder-suicides that’s looming ever closer. Established fans will best appreciate this one. A surfeit of detail about the impact of the pandemic slows the crime solving. Ruth eventually joins Nelson in the search for a connecting thread between the victims, which touches on such personal matters as relationship breakups, rapprochements, family reunions, loved ones in hospital with Covid, lonely lockdowns, and Zoom meetings. All signs point to the middle-aged woman’s suicide, but Nelson isn’t convinced of this, “because who puts a Weight Watchers’ chicken and lemon risotto in the microwave if they’re planning to kill themselves”? His investigation turns up the names of other local women-all seemingly happy churchgoers-who have recently died by suicide. Harry Nelson, is looking into the death of a part-time librarian. Meanwhile, her on-again, off-again lover, Norfolk Det. Ruth is asked to examine a skeleton found at the site of a medieval cemetery near Norwich Cathedral.

The Covid pandemic provides the backdrop for Edgar winner Griffiths’s meandering 14th mystery featuring forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway (after 2021’s The Night Hawks), set during the first few months of 2020.