The Chalk Pit: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 9

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Pierpoint, N. (2013). ‘Stream flow in the Bourne Gutter near Berkhamsted – March-April 2013’. Hertfordshire Naturalist: Trans. Herts. Nat. Hist. Soc., 45 (2): 140-144 The discovery of some not-so-old bones opens up surprising possibilities of a mysterious underground world. This is a small disused chalk pit which lies 0.7km to the north of the village of Barkway and 4km south of Royston, near the top of the north-facing chalk scarp slopes. As well as a RIGS, it is a Hertfordshire and Middlesex Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve.

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The striking feature of the coombes are the distinctive right-angle bends which may reflect some structural control on erosion. Possibly from deep basement faults re activated during the Alpine orogeny or some workers have suggested they may be attributed to a rectangular jointing pattern. Caesura occurs when a line is split in half, sometimes with punctuation, sometimes not. The use of punctuation in these moments creates a very intentional pause in the text. A reader should consider how the pause influences the rhythm of one’s reading and how it might proceed with an important turn or transition in the text. There is a good example in line eight. It reads: “’ That is the place. As usual no one is here”. A reader should take note of the use of sibilance in these lines of ‘ The Chalk Pit’ . That is, the repetition of words that include “s,” such as “stillness,”“silence,”“silent,” and “still”. These work together to create an audible “hush” to the lines. Starred Review. Griffith's ninth is complex and character-driven, providing an excellent mystery whose very last sentence will leave you yearning for the next installment." - Kirkus Chalk cliffs on the Cote d’Albatre, or Alabaster Coast, near Etretat in France. Photograph: Prochasson Frederic/Alamy

The northwest face of Lower Culand pit, although rather obscured by talus, provides the only exposure of the top of the Chalk Marl and the overlying Grey Chalk available in the Medway Valley.

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It descends from the top level via 5 or 6 roadways (benches) each large enough to carry the quarrying machinery which can also pass from one bench to another via ramps.Like its predecessors (The Woman in Blue, 2016, etc.), Griffith’s ninth is complex and character-driven, providing an excellent mystery whose very last sentence will leave you yearning for the next installment. Sitting high above the Needles at the very western tip of the Island, with bird’s-eye views of the Solent and unspoilt countryside, is the Needles Old Battery. A Victorian fort built in 1862 for a war that never took place, it became known as one of ‘Palmerston’s Follies’ after the politician that commissioned it, but was called into action during both World Wars.