, Smart Girls Get What They Want, The Cinderella Pact (which became the Lifetime Original Movie Lying to Be Perfect), The Sleeping Beauty Proposal, The Secret Lives of Fortunate Wives, Sweet Love, and the Bubbles mystery series. Her latest book is Do I Know You?.
[The Page 69 Test: This Is My Brain on Boys; My Book, The Movie: This Is My Brain on Boys; Writers Read: Sarah Strohmeyer (May 2016).]
At CrimeReads Strohmeyer tagged seven novels set in ominous salt-water locales, including:
The Crossing Places by Elly GriffithsRead about the other entries on the list.
Seaside coasts need not be ringed with jagged rocks to be ominous, as Elly Griffiths’s often humorous, always human, forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway knows all too well in The Crossing Places, the first in her excellent Galloway series. Set on the other side of Great Britain on Norfolk’s flats, Galloway is calledto investigate a collection of children’s bones discovered buried in a bleak beach. The sad reveal stirs up memories of another girl, abducted and never found.
Ruth lives near the site, alone, in a tiny house facing the salt marsh. The setting feels portentous. Apparently, its vast expanse of desolate grassland was once considered sacred among ancient settlers who viewed it as the division not only between the earth and the sea, but between life and death.
The book is saturated with the sights and smells of the marsh and the mystery of the mudflats that are as treacherous as they are occasionally fruitful with preserved Bronze Age artifacts—as well as more modern and horrifying discoveries.
The Crossing Places is among Joanna Schaffhausen's ten top dynamic detective duos in crime fiction.
The Page 69 Test: The Crossing Places.
--Marshal Zeringue
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