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Elly Griffiths + William Shaw: Waterstones Liverpool

June 5, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

£3.50
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Fantastic crime authors Elly Griffiths and William Shaw will be us on Wednesday 5th June at 6:30pm to discuss their latest books The Stone Circle and Deadland.

Tickets are £3.50 / £2.50 for Waterstones Plus Cardholders. Tickets are available online!

The Stone Circle; The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 11

DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters telling him to ‘go to the stone circle and rescue the innocent who is buried there’. He is shaken, not only because children are very much on his mind, with Michelle’s baby due to be born, but because although the letters are anonymous, they are somehow familiar. They read like the letters that first drew him into the case of The Crossing Places, and to Ruth. But the author of those letters is dead. Or are they?

Meanwhile Ruth is working on a dig in the Saltmarsh – another henge, known by the archaeologists as the stone circle – trying not to think about the baby. Then bones are found on the site, and identified as those of Margaret Lacey, a twelve-year-old girl who disappeared thirty years ago.

As the Margaret Lacey case progresses, more and more aspects of it begin to hark back to that first case of The Crossing Places, and to Scarlett Henderson, the girl Nelson couldn’t save. The past is reaching out for Ruth and Nelson, and its grip is deadly.

Deadland – DS Alexandra Cupidi

YOU CAN RUN

The two boys never fitted in. Seventeen, the worst age, nothing to do but smoke weed; at least they have each other. The day they speed off on a moped with a stolen mobile, they’re ready to celebrate their luck at last. Until their victim comes looking for what’s his – and ready to kill for it.

YOU CAN HIDE

On the other side of Kent’s wealth divide, DS Alexandra Cupidi faces the strangest murder investigation of her career. A severed limb, hidden inside a modern sculpture in Margate’s Turner Contemporary. No one takes it seriously – not even the artwork’s owners, celebrity dealers who act like they’re above the law.

YOU CAN DIE

But as Cupidi’s case becomes ever more sinister, as she wrangles with police politics and personal dilemmas, she can’t help worrying about those runaway boys. Seventeen, the same age as her own headstrong daughter. Alone, on the marshes, they’re pawns in someone else’s game. Two worlds are about to collide.

Kent and its social divisions are brilliantly captured in Deadland, a crime thriller that’s as ingeniously unguessable as it is moving and powerful.

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Date:
June 5, 2019
Time:
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Cost:
£3.50
Event Category:
Events
Website:
https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-with-elly-griffths-and-william-shaw/liverpool

Venue

Waterstones Liverpool
2 College Lane
Liverpool, L1 3DL United Kingdom
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Phone
0151 709 9820
  • « Take Three Crime Writers: Julie Wassmer, William Shaw and Lisa Cutts
  • Bolton Central Library and Museum, with Elly Griffiths »

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