THE MOST LOVABLE OF CURRENT CRIME SERIES' Sunday Express Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody
and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another killer. A devastating new case for
our favourite forensic archaeologist in this acclaimed and bestselling crime series. The Night
Hawks a group of metal detectorists are searching for buried treasure when they find a body
on the beach in North Norfolk. At first Nelson thinks that the dead man might be an asylum
seeker but he turns out to be a local boy Jem Taylor recently released from prison. Ruth is
more interested in the treasure a hoard of Bronze Age weapons. Nelson at first thinks that
Taylor's death is accidental drowning but a second death suggests murder. Nelson is called to
an apparent murder-suicide of a couple at the isolated Black Dog Farm. Local legend talks of
the Black Shuck a spectral hound that appears to people before they die. Nelson ignores this
even when the owner's suicide note includes the line 'He's buried in the garden.' Ruth
excavates and finds the body of a giant dog. All roads lead back to this farm in the middle of
nowhere but the place spells serious danger for anyone who goes near. Ruth doesn't scare
easily. Not until she finds herself at Black Dog Farm ...
