Book #37 was Elly Griffiths' The Janus Stone, the second Ruth Galloway mystery. A few months after the incident in The Crossing Places, Ruth is called to examine the bones of the child's skeleton (missing the skull) that are uncovered at a construction site. The bones could be Roman or they could belong to one of two children who went missing from a Catholic Children's Home that stood on the site a few decades ago. **Spoiler alert Someone is also threatening Ruth and her unborn child's life.
The myths and legends featured in this mystery revolve around the god Janus and the goddess Hecate. Janus is the god with two faces, the god of beginnings and endings, passages, and doors, also the namesake of the month of January. Hecate is a Greek goddess of death, necromancy, ghosts, and the moon. Shrines to Hecate were often placed at entrances to homes in the hopes of bringing prosperity into the home.
The Janus Stone was as good as The Crossing Places. The third novel in this series is The House at Sea's End.
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