Flickering lanterns, long shadows and ghosts that won’t stay buried. Three crime reads for Halloween night.
Peter Robinson, Standing in the Shadows In 1980 a student comes home to find his ex murdered and her new boyfriend missing. In 2019 a dig turns up a skeleton far too recent for the Romans. DCI Banks’s final case sees past and present collide.
Elly Griffiths, The Lantern Men A convicted killer will reveal where four more women lie buried, but only if Ruth Galloway does the digging. The graves are near a Norfolk fen village haunted by the Lantern Men, whose lights lure travellers to their deaths.
Ann Cleeves, Burial of Ghosts Lizzie Bartholomew, abandoned as a baby, meets a fellow tourist on holiday in Morocco. When he dies, he leaves her £15,000, with strings attached that force her to face the ghosts of her own past.
