Where Old Bones Lie

If you like British police procedurals, then I highly recommend the Mitchell and Markby series. This is the fifth book in the series, and it has all the things in it that I have come to expect from this author. Ms. Granger is a master craftsman of character design. Her characters are wonderfully real, with just enough eccentricities to make them enjoyable. The plot is also wonderfully intricate and complex. The book explores all sorts of issues such as family values, unhappy marriages, disfunctional families and it does so effortlessly and seamlessly. This book is centered around an archeological dig where modern bodies and ancient bones seem to keep turning up. It's a great puzzle.

Why have I never heard of this author before; she's as good as P.D. James or Deborah Crombie in this genre! Just lucked onto this at the library and loved it; good characters and interesting plot. Have two more of hers on hold. If you enjoy James or Crombie you will like this.

This is a well woven story of a murder and the tangled web the main characters Meredith Mitchell and Chief Inspector Alan Markby must untangle to find the killer ... or killers.The story opens with a young Ursula Gretin, an archeologist on a dig with a former married lover, Dan Woollard. Ursula broke off the affair with Dan who refuses to give up on her. He's married to a romance novelist Natalie Woollard. During the opening of the story, Dan calls Ursula to come to his home to see him on an urgent matter. Urgent to him that is. Once there, Ursula realizes that his main motive is to try to rekindle their relationship. She flatly refuses, insisting that their relationship is over. While there Dan tells her that his wife has gone off to visit her mother ... yet, Ursula spots her pocketbook, complete with wallet and car keys and begins to suspect the worst. What woman in their right mind would leave home without her purse, wallet or keys. Ursula suspects the obvious, that Dan has done away with his wife so he can spend his life with her .... or did he? Ursula confides to her friend Meredith her suspicions that Dan has done something to his wife, who then confides to her friend and police detective Alan. Together the two sleuths unravel a few mysteries -- not only the present one of Natalie Woollard's disappearance, but also a murder that is some 25 years old.This is a well written, well told, spellbinding tail of love, betrayal, murder, guilt and innocence. Find this book and find out the conclusions. You'll hang on each and ever page until you come to the amazing conclusion. This is a great read!