Alone and seeking new direction after her husband’s death in a car crash, Clare Hills quits London for the reassuring familiarity of the Wiltshire countryside. There she rekindles her friendship with David Barbrook, now an archaeology lecturer at their old university.

When Clare embarks on a quest to track down missing Bronze Age gold she makes a grisly discovery that puts her at the centre of a murder inquiry. To the police it’s an open and shut case – the only suspect dead. But David's excavation of the Hungerbourne Barrows dig site provokes a chilling threat that suggests the murder is linked to the local legend of the ‘Woe Waters'.

After Clare becomes the victim of an accident that leaves her clinging just inches from death she becomes determined to unmask the killer. Her investigations unearth a long-buried trail of greed, obsession and murder. For in Hungerbourne it seems the past is never really past…

The Hungerbourne (not yet published) is the opening book in a series of archaeological crime thrillers featuring Clare Hills and David Barbrook. I'm now writing the second book in the series: The Sacrifice - a tale of death, deception and ancient Celtic ritual.

My non-fiction writing, published as Nicola Snashall:

Allen, M & Snashall, N. 2009. New Features at Avebury From Hand Coring: Geoarchaeology in Action. In PAST Newsletter of the Prehistoric Society 63, 12-13.

Snashall, N. 2008. Worked Flint from the Longstones Cove and Beckhampton Avenue. In Gillings, M., Pollard, J., Wheatley, D. & Peterson, R. Landscape of the Megaliths: excavation and fieldwork on the Avebury monuments, 1997-2003. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Snashall, N. 2008. Worked Flint from Avenue Contexts. In Gillings, M., Pollard, J., Wheatley, D. & Peterson, R. Landscape of the Megaliths: excavation and fieldwork on the Avebury monuments, 1997-2003. Oxford: Oxbow Books

Snashall, N. 2008. In the Shadow of the Monuments. In Simmonds, S (ed.) Avebury World Heritage Site. Values and Voices. Kennet District Council.

Snashall, N. 2007. An Earlier Neolithic Site at Hackpen, Overton Hill, Avebury. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 100, 191-192.

Snashall, N. 2002. The Idea of Residence in the Neolithic Cotswolds. Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, University of Sheffield (PhD Thesis).
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