The most recent (2023), as I post, in the Ruth Galloway series. Set during Covid.

Quite good.

Some issues are finally resolved in the complicated life of Ruth.

When builders renovating a café in find a human skeleton behind a wall, they call for DCI Harry Nelson and Dr Ruth Galloway, Head of Archaeology at the nearby University of North Norfolk.  …

Ruth sees at once that the bones are modern. They are identified as the remains of Emily Pickering, a young archaeology student who went missing in the 1990s. Emily attended a course run by her Cambridge tutor. Suspicion falls on him and also on another course member – Ruth’s friend Cathbad, who is still frail following his near death from Covid.

… just when the team seem to be making progress, Cathbad disappears. Was it guilt that led him to flee?

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