hkguasco 's review for:

The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths

4.0

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I’m not sure how to rate this one. Firstly, I love the anthropology angle and the female lead. The lonely English coastal setting, the interesting supporting cast. I really enjoyed the first half of the book and loved Ruth as the main character. Then right at the 60% mark there’s this huge shift between two characters that completely derailed things for me—WHYYYY!? It was completely out of character for both of them and absolutely unnecessary for plot development. Then we got back to the mystery and kind of swept that event under the rug (thank you) but in the last couple paragraphs of the book there’s another revelation that I think is completely unwarranted! For some reason this is threatening to spoil the series for me but there was enough material that I loved to keep me reading…maybe Griffiths has a reason for shoehorning this in…

I’ll have to keep reading to find out!