The Crossing Places: The first book in the megaselling Ruth Galloway series (The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 1)

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Verse 8 describes the Israelites crossing the Red Sea, and proceeding for three days into the wilderness of Etham, within which they camped at Marah, and then on to Elim (verse 9).

Certainly it’s hard to see what else cats do for humans, aside from looking cute and killing the odd mouse. African men, women and children were kidnapped from countries including modern-day Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Built around a vast, working port, Southampton combines modern student living with the benefits of a harbourside location.Smith even described the Sinai Peninsula as “a region which no other people has ever disputed with them [the Arabs]. The stories in each book are standalone, however, the interaction between the main characters (namely Ruth and Detective Chief Inspector Harry Nelson) are not. This “Israelite city” was very effectively identified in the earlier Patterns of Evidence: Exodus documentary. Thus, the Bible recognizes such military outposts, dotted across the northern Sinai and up into Canaan—and recognizes them as being entirely separate and apart from Egypt proper! The region around Attaka and Ain Sokhna, at the northwest part of the gulf, would fit nicely with the biblical account of the mountains that hemmed in the Israelites.

The Bible also describes the Israelites “pitching” in only three different locations before the sea crossing—but it describes them pitching in eight different locations after it, on the way to Mount Sinai (Numbers 33:5-15). Guardian children's fiction prize relaunched: Entry details and list of past winners" Archived 1 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Griffiths' publishers clearly believe that they are on to a winner, already advertising this as the first in a series of Ruth Galloway novels.

Although they are not the remains of the missing little girl, Galloway is intrigued by the letters and the details about the girl’s disappearance and starts helping Detective Nelson to either find her dead or alive.