The Janus stone
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
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9780547237442, 0547237448, 9780547577401
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Format
Book
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327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9780547237442, 0547237448, 9780547577401

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Originally published: London : Quercus, 2010.
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Includes an excerpt from The house at sea's end.
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Ruth Galloway is called in to investigate when builders, demolishing a large old house in Norwich to make way for a housing development, uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway -- minus the skull. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? DCI Harry Nelson would like to find out -- and fast. It turns out the house was once a children's home. Nelson traces the Catholic priest who used to run the home. Father Hennessey tells him that two children did go missing from the home forty years before -- a boy and a girl. They were never found. When carbon dating proves that the child's bones predate the home and relate to a time when the house was privately owned, Ruth is drawn ever more deeply into the case. But as spring turns into summer it becomes clear that someone is trying very hard to put her off the scent by frightening her half to death...Ruth Galloway is called in to investigate when builders uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway -- minus the skull. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? DCI Harry Nelson would like to find out -- and fast. It turns out the house was once a children's home. Nelson traces the Catholic priest who used to run the home. Father Hennessey tells him that two children did go missing from the home forty years before -- a boy and a girl. They were never found. When carbon dating proves that the child's bones predate the home and relate to a time when the house was privately owned, Ruth is drawn ever more deeply into the case. But as spring turns into summer it becomes clear that someone is trying very hard to put her off the scent by frightening her half to death...

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Griffiths, E. (2011). The Janus stone (First U.S. edition.). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Griffiths, Elly. 2011. The Janus Stone. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Griffiths, Elly. The Janus Stone Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Griffiths, Elly. The Janus Stone First U.S. edition., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

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