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May 23, 2023 · The discovery of a missing woman’s bones force Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings for each other as they desperately work to exonerate one of their own in this not-to-be-missed Ruth Galloway mystery from USA Today bestselling author Elly Griffiths.
Jan 1, 2024 · The race is on, first to find Cathbad and then to exonerate him, but will Ruth and Nelson uncover the truth in time to save their friend? Griffiths creates the Emily Pickering case as a way to bring the series’ character threads together and what a MAGNIFICENT ending it is.
Mar 27, 2017 · DCI Harry Nelson refuses to give up the hunt for the missing girl. Since she vanished, someone has been sending him creepy anonymous notes about ritual sacrifice. He knows that Ruth's expertise and experience could help him finally to put this case to rest.
- The Crossing Places
- The Janus Stone
- The House at Sea’s End
- A Room Full of Bones
- Ruth’s First Christmas Tree
- Dying Fall
- The Outcast Dead
- The Ghost Fields
- The Woman in Blue
- The Chalk Pit
Book one in the series starts as it means to go on, with bones unearthed at the edge of a North Norfolk salt marsh. Are they recent or ancient? DCI Harry Nelson is desperate to know if they belong to a young girl who went missing 10 years ago, and he calls upon the expertise of Dr Ruth Galloway, an academic whose speciality is forensic archeology. ...
Builders knocking down an old property in Norwich uncover the skeleton of a child – minus the skull – beneath a doorway. Time for Nelson and a pregnant Ruth to unite again. The house was once a children’s home and Nelson tracks down the priest who used to run the place. He recalls two children going missing 40 years ago. Could the bones belong to o...
Research into coastal erosion in North Norfolk takes a macabre turn when six bodies are found buried at the foot of a cliff. They’re old skeletons, but just how old? Time to call in Ruth Galloway, who soon discovers links back to World War II. As she and Harry Nelson work in tandem to piece together secrets of wartime Norfolk, new mother Ruth begin...
Halloween is perfect time to set a crime novel, and as A Room Full of Bones opens we find Ruth attending a rather offbeat event at a museum in Kings Lynn. She’s there to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop. However, things take a sinister turn with the discovery of the museum curator’s body beside the casket....
This is a short story, but well worth including (and you can check out the author reading it here). Ruth and her daughter Kate are getting ready for Christmas, well… sort of. Kate is just a year old, and while Ruth wants things to be special for her daughter, another part of her just wishes it was all over. She has so much to do and there are only ...
Juggling work and motherhood is proving a tricky balance for Ruth as A Dying Fall opens. And things are about to get even more complicated, with the news that her long-time friend and ex-colleague Dan Golding has been killed in a house fire. She is shocked and upset but a day later Ruth receives a desperate letter from Dan, posted the day before hi...
Crimes old and new come together in explosive fashion in The Outcast Dead (reviewed here) – named after an annual service held in Norwich to commemorate those laid to rest in paupers’ graves. Ruth uncovers bones believed to belong to a notorious Victorian child murderess known as Mother Hook, hanged in 1867 at Norwich Castle for killing multiple ch...
A bullet-riddled body is unearthed in the cockpit of a buried World War II fighter plane – but he isn’t the pilot and died much more recently. It’s another conundrum for Ruth and Nelson to get their teeth into, because the dead man is local aristocrat Fred Blackstock who had been reported lost at sea… curiouser and curiouser. The arrival of a TV co...
While house sitting a cottage next to a graveyard, Ruth’s druid friend Cathbad sees a vision of the Virgin Mary, in a white gown and blue cloak. He’s unperturbed – after all, the county is home to the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. But the next day a woman in a blue dressing gown is found dead in a nearby ditch, identified as a recovering addict...
Norwich’s web of old chalk mining tunnels are the setting as human bones are discovered at the site of a proposed underground restaurant. Ruth soon categorises the find as a recent burial, setting Nelson off on a murder hunt. He already has a heavy workload, and with a new boss to impress the pressure is on. Meanwhile, DS Judy Johnson is checking o...
Feb 2, 2023 · The discovery of a missing woman's bones forces Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings for each other as they desperately work to exonerate one of their own.
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Aug 3, 2023 · Ruth is preoccupied with the threatened closure of her department and by her ever-complicated relationship with Nelson. The bones are identified as those of Emily Pickering, an archaeology...
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DCI Harry Nelson refuses to give up the hunt for the missing girl. Since she vanished, someone has been sending him creepy anonymous notes about ritual sacrifice. He knows that Ruth's expertise and experience could help him finally to put this case to rest.
