The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths is the 13th book in her Dr Ruth Galloway series. I realised not long after beginning to read this book that I had missed out on number 12 – The Lantern Men – so I’ll have to go backwards and read it as it seems that quite a lot happened in that one. Ruth is now Head of Archaeology at North Norfolk University.
Anyway, The Night Hawks are a group of metal detectorists and while doing their thing on a Norfolk beach they discover what they think might be a Bronze Age weapon hoard, but as they’re digging one of them realises that something has been washed up as the tide comes in. It’s a body, so obviously the police are called in – in the shape of Nelson. Yet again Nelson and Ruth are thrown together as she examines the detectorist’s find and he tries to discover the identity of the body.
I think this is one of the weaker books in this series, I found it to be quite predictable and I was surprised when it’s mentioned that Ruth’s daughter is now eleven years old as she seems a lot younger. Yet again there’s jeapordy for Nelson. I suspect that the author is running out of steam with this series, but I still quite enjoyed it.
I am much behind in the series and I am sure I will stay that way. I hope to read book 5, A Dying Fall, in the next few months. Then I will start looking for a copy of the next one. At the book sale, I got both The Stranger Diaries (which I have read) and The Postscript Murders, and the first book in the other series, set in Brighton.
tracybham,
I decided against starting her Brighton series, too many on the go to start another series. I have started to read Parnell Hall’s Arsenic and Old Puzzles, and I’m enjoying it despite it being one of a long series.