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    Crow Stone
    Audiobook (abridged)4 hours

    Crow Stone

    Written by Jenni Mills

    Narrated by Eleanor David

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    A compulsively readable thriller that skillfully weaves together past and present to uncover the sinister secrets buried in the ancient stone quarries under Bath.

    Kit Parry is reluctant to take the job shoring up the ancient quarries beneath her hometown of Bath – a place as riddled with memories she’d rather forget as it is with Roman ruins. The miners certainly don’t want her there, and her burgeoning romance with lanky foreman Gary looks likely to complicate matters even further.

    But when dark developments threaten the spa town’s placid façade, Kit must face up to the past she’s tried so desperately to bury. Someone wants her out of Bath – that much is clear – but who was it that brought her childhood to an abrupt end in the summer of her fourteenth year? Why has she never been back to Bath, and how did she escape her violent father? When Kit stumbles across evidence of a lost Mithraic temple, the mysteries in her own past become entangled with a search for what could be the archaeological discovery of the decade – and what turns into a dangerous obsession…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 1, 2009
    ISBN9780007339303
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    Crow Stone
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    Jenni Mills

    Jenni Mills was born in Birmingham. She has never been much good at getting up in the morning, so she has had to have lots of different jobs in the hope that nobody would notice this. Mostly, she has worked in broadcasting. She has presented and produced many programmes for BBC Radio Four and has directed TV documentaries for the BBC and ITV. She gained a distinction in her MA in Creating Writing at Bath Spa University, where she now tutors. ‘The Buried Circle’ is her second novel.

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    • 4/5
      This is the second archaeological-based mystery thriller I have read by this author, though I didn't enjoy it as much as Buried Circle. This one is based around the discovery of a temple to Mithras in some old mines underneath Bath. While I love Bath, we don't get to see much of the city here, and indeed we don't get that much of the mystery either. While there were some creepy and atmospheric scenes set in the utter darkness of the mines, much of the novel concerned the childhood travails of the central character, Kit Parry, and her complex relationships with her families and friends as she grew up, with chapters alternating between her childhood and her current (2007) work as a mining engineer, facing sexism from many of her colleagues in an overwhelmingly male industry. For me, there was rather too much of Kit's personal life, and not enough of the mystery/thriller elements in a slightly rambling and probably overlong novel. I understand what the author was trying to achieve, but this imbalance was a bit of a disappointment to me.
    • 4/5
      A rattling good yarn which won't change your life but is hugely entertaining. Why should the boys have a monopoly on that?
    • 3/5
      This was one of those books that I finished because I time invested into it more than because I enjoyed it. The story was not bad, and the characters were solid, but I found the story slow. I thought I would enjoy it much more than I did.
    • 4/5
      Another great read by this author have read a previous book but enjoyed this one more it makes you think of the completely different world that is buried underground and how much history is buried never to be seen again!
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book. It was an easy read and held my interest. I didn't spot the twist though perhaps I should have!The background of the underground quarries at Bath was interesting.The character of Kit was well drawn but I did think the people around her were a lot less so. I didn't think we ever really got to know much about Gary and I spotted that the archeologist was the creep straight off.I thought the plot split between the present and the past was very well done and never got confusing. Spoiler Alert!!There were several unlikely coincidences - finding her own mother's skull! and I think in reality Kit would never have returned to Bath or risked her job to go underground illegally but of course then there would be no story. But there were some very good aspects too - the behaviour of teenage girls - made me cringe in recognition :) her unwillingness to rock the boat in her job as a woman in a male dominated world.her love/hate relationship with her father. I feel like I learned something about Bath and the Mithras cult without any effort. I give this 4 stars out of 5 and I would read another book by her.
    • 4/5
      This book was highly recommended on the back by the mystery writer , Susan Hill, which was sufficient to persuade me to buy it. It is a first novel by Jenni Mills and takes place in the ancient English city of Bath. The mystery plays out in the labyrinth of tunnels under Bath where limestone has been mined since the time of the Romans. If you are nervous underground or claustrophobic this book might be a bit nerve wracking. Kit Parry is a mining engineer who is working on shoring up the ancient tunnels to make them safer for the residents who live above. Kit grew up in Bath and is haunted by memories of a traumatic childhood and the terrble events which occurred when she was 14. When evidence is discovered in the mines of a possible Roman temple dedicated to the cult of Mithras , the past and present are inter twined and answers lie deep within the mines.A very good book fro a mystery lover.
    • 4/5
      Crow Stone has been described as a quintessentially British Thriller, which I would agree with. I liked it a lot. It was well-plotted, weaving the 1970's past with the present, and evenly-paced; the characters were entirely believable. The setting was interesting too - the beautiful city of Bath, underneath which stretched a complex labyrinth of ancient quarries, tunnels and caves. This book would make an excellent TV Drama too.
    • 5/5
      The setting of CROW STONE is the tunnels that sit under the city of Bath. The tunnels are the result of the mining for the workable pale gold stone for which Bath is famous. But now the tracery of tunnelwork is collapsing and mining engineer Kit Parry has been engaged to stabilize the ancient workings. Written in two connected time frames, Kit's childhood, and the present, the novel combines the elements of thriller (danger) and mystery. Even today women are not welcome in the underground world of men and someone definitely resents Kit's presence in the project. I loved the interweaving of the Mithraic mystery too - did Roman soldiers worship Mithras.? There are some lovely descriptive passages too. A debut novel, and hopefully not Jenni Mills' last.