Description

When she’s not looking up bones or other historic items, cool, sour-tongued archaeologist Ruth Galloway lives happily alone in area named Saltmarsh near Norfolk, property which was holy to its Iron Age inhabitants - not quite planet, not quite ocean. Whenever a child’s bones are observed on the desolate beach regional, Detective Chief Inspector Harry Nelson calls Galloway for aid. Nelson believes he's discovered the remains of Lucy Downey, only a little girl who went missing 10 years previously. Because her disappearance he's been getting weird letters about her, letters with recommendations to sacrifice and practice.