This book contains violent and/or sexual content.
AuthorElly Griffiths
NarratorJane Mcdowell
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 1
Duration8h 26m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries
PublisherBBC Audiobooks
VersionUnabridged
When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, Ruth Galloway lectures at the University of North Norfolk. She lives happily alone in a remote place called Saltmarsh overlooking the North Sea and, for company, she has her cats Flint and Sparky, and Radio 4. When a child's bones are found in the marshes near an ancient site that Ruth worked on ten years earlier, Ruth is asked to date them. The bones turn out to be two thousand years old, and DCI Harry Nelson, who called on Ruth for help, is disappointed. He'd hoped they would be the bones of a child called Lucy who's been missing for ten years; he's been getting letters about her ever since. Then a second girl goes missing and Nelson receives more letters. Soon it becomes clear that Ruth is in grave danger from a killer who knows that her expert knowledge is being used to help the police with their enquiries. CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES
The Last Remains: Ruth Galloway Book 15
Author: Elly Griffiths
Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 15
Duration 9h 48m
When builders renovating a café in King's Lynn find a human skeleton behind a wall, they call for DCI Harry Nelson and Dr Ruth Galloway, Head of Archaeology at the nearby University of North Norfolk. Ruth is preoccupied with the threatened closure of her department and by her ever-complicated relationship with Nelson. However, she agrees to...
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The Stone Circle: Ruth Galloway Book 11
Author: Elly Griffiths
Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Daniel Philpott
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 11
Duration 11h 58m
DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters telling him to 'go to the stone circle and rescue the innocent who is buried there'. He is shaken, not only because children are very much on his mind, with Michelle's baby due to be born, but because although the letters are anonymous, they are somehow familiar. They read like the letters that firs...
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A Dying Fall: Ruth Galloway Book 5
Author: Elly Griffiths
Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Clare Corbett
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 5
Duration 10h 26m
Ruth Galloway receives a phone call that bears shocking news. A friend of hers from college, Dan Golding, has been killed in a fire at his Lancashire home. Her shock turns to alarm when she gets a letter from Dan. He has made a discovery that will change archaeology forever but he needs Ruth's advice. Even more alarming, he sounds vulnerable and fr...
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A Room Full of Bones: Ruth Galloway Book 4
Author: Elly Griffiths
Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Clare Corbett
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 4
Duration 9h 25m
Shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library. It is Halloween night, and the local museum in King’s Lynn is preparing for an unusual event - the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop. But when Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise, she finds the museum’s curator lying dead beside the coffin. It is only a matter of...
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The Night Hawks: Ruth Galloway Book 13
Author: Elly Griffiths
Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 13
Duration 9h 22m
Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another killer. A devastating new case for our favourite forensic archaeologist in this acclaimed and best-selling crime series. The Night Hawks, a group of metal detectorists, are searching for buried treasure when they find a body on the beach in Nor...
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The Chalk Pit: Ruth Galloway Book 9
Author: Elly Griffiths
Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 9
Duration 9h 59m
Boiled human bones have been found in Norwich's web of underground tunnels. When forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway discovers the bones aren't as old as originally thought, it's time for DCI Nelson to launch a murder inquiry. What was initially just a medieval curiosity has taken a much more sinister nature.... Meanwhile, DS Judy Johnson is in...
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The Outcast Dead: Ruth Galloway Book 6
Author: Elly Griffiths
Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Clare Corbett
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 6
Duration 9h 19m
Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway has excavated a body from the grounds of Norwich Castle; it's believed to be that of infamous Victorian murderess Jemima Green, who was hanged in 1867 for the murder of five children in her care. DCI Harry Nelson is immersed in the case of three infants found dead, one after the other, in their King's Lynn home....
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The Dark Angel: Ruth Galloway Book 10
Author: Elly Griffiths
Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 10
Duration 9h 53m
Dr Ruth Galloway is flattered when she receives a letter from Italian archaeologist Dr Angelo Morelli, asking for her help. He's discovered a group of bones in a tiny hilltop village near Rome but doesn't know what to make of them. It's years since Ruth has had a holiday, and even a working holiday to Italy is very welcome! So Ruth travels to Caste...
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The Lantern Men: Ruth Galloway Book 12
Author: Elly Griffiths
Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 12
Duration 10h 16m
Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She has a new job, home and partner and is no longer North Norfolk police's resident forensic archaeologist. That is, until convicted murderer Amyas March offers to make DCI Nelson a deal. Nelson was always sure that March killed more women than he was charged with. Now March confirms this and offers to...
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The Ghost Fields: Ruth Galloway Book 7
Author: Elly Griffiths
Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Clare Corbett
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 7
Duration 9h 34m
Norfolk is experiencing a July heat wave when a construction crew unearths a macabre discovery - a buried World War II plane with the pilot still inside. Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway quickly realizes that the skeleton couldn't possibly be the pilot, and DNA tests identify the man as Fred Blackstock, a local aristocrat who had been reported...
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David 13 Oct 2023
Female authors are the best
As along retired Bobby (showing my age now) I find Female Authors seem to have the edge on males. With a better understanding of the cerebral side of Policing.
(Or am I being sexist I thought WOKE is what I do after a nap)
Elly Griffiths is a perfect example of this. Her characterisation is absolutely spot on! I can identify with her Police Officers (I'm not that old) and the plots are mystifying ( beat me every time). The only thing I get mad about is when uniform
call a Detective Constable Sir. Please Elly Detecive is not a rank or grade it's a job title like plumber although I've met a few plumbers that could do a better job than some detectives. Guess who was uniform all his 20+ years. To get the most enjoyment out of her books I definitely recommend progressing from book 1 onwards