familiar. They read like the letters that first drew him into the case of The Crossing Places, and to Ruth. 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. The past is reaching out for Ruth and Nelson, and its grip is deadly.