The house at sea's end - Elly Griffiths

"[A] page turning mystery . . .
it provides a wholly satisfying
whodunit as well as a good reason to look up the other two [books in the
series] . . . Griffiths's Galloway is a likable and alluring
character."-Associated Press

Just back from maternity leave,
forensic archeologist Ruth is finding it hard to juggle motherhood and
work when she is called in to investigate human bones that have surfaced
on a remote Norfolk beach. The presence of DCI Harry Nelson, the
married father of her daughter, does not help. The bones, six men with
their arms bound, turn out date back to World War II, a desperate time
on this stretch of coastland.

Home Guard veteran Archie
Whitcliffe reveals the existence of a secret the old soldiers have vowed
to protect with their lives. But then Archie is killed and a German
journalist arrives, asking questions about Operation Lucifer, a plan to
stop a German invasion, and a possible British war crime. What was
Operation Lucifer? And who is prepared to kill to keep its secret?