Another excellent book from Elly Griffiths. I do enjoy the way she writes. In this fifth book in the Ruth Galloway series she moves away from the usual setting in Norfolk to the seaside town of Blackpool. It is a welcome change and gives the author the opportunity to present the characters and their relationships in a different way.Although each book in this series has a different crime to be solved, it is the characters who really make the books. Ruth, Nelson and Cathbad are the main interests

I really enjoyed book 5 of this Ruth Galloway series, parts of it even more than the previous books. As this series continues you get to know more about these characters who are all wonderful and interesting to read about. This book is mostly set in Blackpool, Ruth is investigating the mysterious death of an old friend and fellow archaeologist and Nelson is visiting family.Despite really enjoying the mystery, the historical events the mystery involved and thoroughly enjoying the characters a cou...

As always, I love the writing of Elly Griffiths and impatiently wait for the next book every time. She grabs from the first sentence with this one and doesn't let go! The story was really good but I wasn't as taken with the actual "mystery." It's really not that difficult to figure it out even though it's supposed to be a real surprise, I think. What I love the most are the characters and she gave me a real scare toward the end of the book. Naughty, naughty! (I'm shaking my finger at her.) If yo...

A Dying Fall by Elly GriffithsPublished 2013, Houghton Mifflin HarcourtStars: ★★★★☆Review also posted at: Slapdash & SundryThis was probably my favorite one since the first one. Plenty of suspects, a different locale that set our team on edge, actual danger for some of the characters, and...I thought I had the killer(s?) figured out, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that I was wrong.Highly entertaining one, this. :)

It's always a pleasure to read the next installment of the Ruth Galloway crime series. Ruth and Co. are like old friends now! In this fifth book, Ruth travels up to Blackpool to investigate the death of an old college friend, Dan, who has died in a house fire. It soon becomes apparent that the fire was no accident and seems to be linked with Dan's recent discovery of the possible bones of the legendary King Arthur. Add some shady Neo Nazis into the mix and our friends are soon in a spot of bothe...

4.25 stars. This series consistently delivers the following:*Atmosphere galore with bonus: the creepy British countryside by the sea*Dynamite recurring characters I've come to know and love. And a new one introduced this volume whom I'm sure we'll see again (Tim) and looking forward to it. *The kind of wry humor I really appreciate, so, lots of smiles*Cathbad. Need I say more?! Nope. *A heroine I'm really growing attached to. She's smart, she loves her child but she's not a "pearls and heels" ty...

This is my least favorite of the series so far. I found the plot to be pretty thin with too many characters and very little depth. I also find that I like Ruth less and less with each book. Her lack of self-esteem and feelings of inferiority are becoming annoying; she doesn't even correct Nelson when he calls their daughter Katie instead of Kate. She needs to return to her role as Nelson's crime solving partner and drop the pathetic mother role.

This is the fifth book in a series about Dr. Ruth Galloway, a forensic archaeologist, who is a professor at the University of Norfolk, UK. Ruth lives in a saltmarsh cottage near there, with her 18 month old daughter Kate and her cat Flint. Ruth has been called upon in the past to assist in police cases which need expertise in examining and dating bones. She met DCI Harry Nelson in the first case who is the father of Kate. DCI Nelson is married to someone other than Ruth and has to (2) daughters

I'm becoming very fond of Ruth Galloway. In book 5 of the series she has to go to the Blackpool area to have a look at some bones. The tension builds up slowly but keeps you interested.

This is the fifth book in the Ruth Galloway series, and it was an enjoyable read. The usual characters make an appearance, although Clough and Judy had minor roles. With the setting changing to the north in Blackpool, where Nelson was raised, there are several new characters in this book. The storyline is based on the finding of King Arthur's skeleton, and Ruth's expertise is needed. Cathbad plays a major role, and I'm guessing there are some changes afoot for the next book.

This may be the last of Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway series I read. It has nothing to do with Griffiths' writing skills--she's wonderful. Her dialogue is crisp, her settings vibrant and enticing, her plot engaging. I even love most of the characters--who couldn't be enchanted by the Druid Cathbad with a heart of gold and the easy-going attitude toward life we would all love to emulate. I can easily understand why it's a Mary Higgins Clark award-winner.The problem is Ruth Galloway--the main char...

I have to hand it to Griffiths. She has created a cast of characters that feels so totally real I have no trouble picturing them and feeling connected to them. Even Cathbad, with his purple cloak. And this time, we get to learn a little more of everyone’s family stories - Cathbad’s single mom, Nelson’s family back in Blackpool and their “pyrotechnic” fights. These books are perfect for those with an interest in mythology and history along with a great mystery. In this case, the question is wheth...

I really love Kate. I’m eager to get to know her as she grows and matures and becomes even more verbal and able to express herself. I love Cathbad too. I still really enjoy and love Ruth but I’m getting incredibly tired of main characters in mysteries that over & over & over again stupidly unnecessarily put themselves in danger. I’m really, really not okay when/if Kate is put in danger or even a chance that she’s in danger. Nope, I don’t like it. I do not appreciate how my emotions were played w...

To be honest this one was more bearable than the two previous ones but still not the kind of crime mystery I enjoy reading!Apart from Kate who's a baby, Thing who's a dog and Catchbad I can't stand the other characters! Not even the new additions that are involved in this story that seemed to me without depth and uninteresting. Ruth that is mooning over Nelson and not trying to be happy, Nelson that is complaining constantly about Ruth's personal life despite the fact that he has no right to do

I can resist everything but temptation! (Thank you, Oscar Wilde.) There are other books due at the library or partially read, asking to be finished, but I couldn't resist the lure of another Ruth Galloway mystery. I was somewhat worried because I'd read the previous book in the series just last month that this volume would feel less enchanting as a result. I needn't have been concerned. Griffiths manages to transport us almost a year from A Room Full of Bones. Kate is nearing her second birthday...