Nobody does a more delightful job of mixing love affairs, ominous happenings, murder, and heroics than Elly Griffiths. Her Dr. Ruth Galloway mysteries are totally absorbing and addictive, and The Dark Angel keeps up the irresistible momentum of the series.
Ruth goes to Italy to consult with another archeologist and is drawn into a murder case. Back home in Norfolk, violence also enfolds, as a murderer on parole stalks the various cops who put him away. In both settings, the passionate entanglements among Ruth, her policeman lover Nelson, his wife Michelle, and her lover Tim increase in complexity and intensity.
These two setting and narratives alternate throughout The Dark Angel, the chapters often ending with a dramatic cliffhanger. The reader is constantly expecting the worst (justifiably), while at the same time being titillated by the flourishing of illicit love and guilt on all sides.
I thought I wouldn’t like any setting as well as Norfolk with its spooky salt marshes. But the walled hilltop town where Ruth and her entourage stay is fascinating. The past is still present to the inhabitants. It’s as if the Nazis and even the Roman conquerors have just left. Generations of townspeople have lived here through dreadful experiences, and resentments have been simmering for generations.
I read The Dark Angel obsessively, only breaking reluctantly at night for sleep. A lot of questions were answered from the last book. I can barely wait for the next book to answer more. I want this series to go on forever. So does my husband. So does my next-door neighbor.
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