As Walsingham prepares for its annual Easter re-enactment of the Crucifixion, the race is on to unmask the killer before they strike again. Then another woman is murdered - a priest. She has been receiving vitriolic anonymous letters targeting women priests - letters containing references to local archaeology and a striking phrase about a woman 'clad in blue, weeping for the world'. Ruth, a devout atheist, has managed to avoid Walsingham during her seventeen years in Norfolk, but then an old university friend asks to meet her in the village, and Ruth is amazed to discover that she is now a priest. But when the dead body of a woman in a blue dressing-gown is found in a nearby ditch, it is clear that a horrible crime has been committed, and DCI Nelson and his team are called in. Cathbad is a druid after all - visions come with the job.
When Ruth's friend Cathbad sees a vision of the Virgin Mary in a white gown and blue cloak in Walsingham's graveyard, he takes it in his stride. As Walsingham prepares for its annual Easter re-enactment of the Crucifixion, the race is on to unmask the killer before they strike again.In the spooky shrine town of Walsingham, a series of murders of women priests draws forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway into a thrilling new adventure. The next morning the womans body, dressed in a white nightdress and blue dressing. She has been receiving vitriolic anonymous letters targeting women priests - letters containing references to local archaeology and a striking phrase about a woman 'clad in blue, weeping for the world'. Ruth Galloways friend Cathbad is house-sitting in the Norfolk village of Walsingham, famous as a centre for pilgrimages to the Virgin Mary, when he sees a strange vision of a young woman dressed in blue he thinks may be the Madonna herself.
But then an old university friend asks to meet her in the village, and Ruth is amazed to discover that she is now a priest. Ruth, a devout atheist, has managed to avoid Walsingham during her seventeen years in Norfolk. But when the body of a woman in a blue dressing-gown is found dead the next day in a nearby ditch, it is clear that a horrible crime has been committed, and DCI Nelson and his team are called in for what is now a murder investigation. Walsingham has strong connections to Mary, and Cathbad is a druid after all visions come with the job. When Ruth's friend Cathbad sees a vision of the Virgin Mary, in a white gown and blue cloak, in Walsingham's graveyard, he takes it in his stride. 'Ever-more ingenious detective stories with a powerful sense of place' The Times The murder of women priests in Norfolk's spooky shrine town of Walsingham draws forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway into a thrilling new adventure.
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