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Earlier this year, I read The Stone Circle, the 11th in the series. Now, I’ve finally had time to go back and start at the beginning. I’ve got to give credit to Elly Griffiths. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book where I felt I had such a complete feel for a main character in such a short period of time. She truly gives you a fully formed main character in the first few chapters. And Ruth is a great character! Almost forty, single, living on the edge of the salt marsh with her cats; she’s an ar...
I very much enjoyed Elly Griffiths' writing in The Stranger Diaries which made me seek out this book, the first in her series about Ruth Galloway. I found it to be a very promising start.Ruth is a very interesting character, someone who likes to be alone and considers herself over weight and not especially attractive and yet she seems to have a lot of friends and several men who appear to be interested in her. DCI Harry Nelson is one of these men and it will be interesting to see how things turn...
The Crossing Places was written by Elly Griffiths (pseudonym). Many believe that this was her debut novel, however, she published The Italian Quarter, under her real name Domenica de Rosa, in 2004. The author got her idea for the book while on holiday in Norfolk, United Kingdom with her archaeologist husband. They were walking on Titchwell Marsh, and nature reserve. The Crossing Places, a mystery, is about a forensic archaeologist, Dr. Ruth Galloway, who is called in to examine human remains (bo...
This is the first in a series by Elly Griffiths which features Ruth Galloway,a forensic archaelogist who lives alone with her two cats in an isolated cottage on Norfolk's Saltmarsh coast.Ruth is ascerbic, solitary and strangely loveable. She works as the Head of Forensic Archaeology at the University of North Norfolk.Thirty-something and a bit overweight, she does not have much of a social life, nor does she want one. However, she is drawn to DCI Harry Nelson, the police inspector who was instru...
The Hook In my role as Adult Services Librarian I often recommended books to others. Had I read each and every one of these? Of course not yet. In reality I hadn't read any but knew I had patrons that would enjoy them. There were always certain books that I knew would appeal to me as well as those I suggested to those I served. One was The Ruth Galloway Series by Elly Griffiths. When I heard that book 12, The Lantern Men, was being released I thought it's now or never. The Line - ”Why do we feel...
This is an excellent start to Griffiths' series featuring forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway who lives on the lonely and remote Norfolk salt marshes. Her specialty is bones so when a child's bones are found on the marsh, Ruth is called in by DCI Harry Nelson to date the bones. Nelson is hoping the bones are those of a missing girl who disappeared ten years ago as he would love to solve the case for her parents. However, the bones are much older and Ruth thinks they may be linked to an Iron age...
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths is a 2010 publication. So many of my GR friends read the Ruth Galloway series, making me wildly curious about it for a long time. I went in blind, however, not really knowing what the premise was, and I'm glad I did. While this first book has some issues, I understand now why the series is so popular. Ruth is a forensic archaeologist in her late thirties. She is unmarried and lives with her two cats. However, her quiet, orderly, slightly dull life is rudely
25. Pearl Ruled: THE CROSSING PLACES by ELLY GRIFFITHSRating: 1.875* of five (p126)The Book Description: When she’s not digging up bones or other ancient objects, quirky, tart-tongued archaeologist Ruth Galloway lives happily alone in a remote area called Saltmarsh near Norfolk, land that was sacred to its Iron Age inhabitants - not quite earth, not quite sea.When a child’s bones are found on a desolate beach nearby, Detective Chief Inspector Harry Nelson calls Galloway for help. Nelson thinks h...
‘The human desire is to live, to cheat death, to live forever. It is the same over all the ages. It is why we build monuments to death so that they live on after we die.’I've recently tried a few other mystery series but I either abandoned them after the 1 st volume or did not even finish it. I read quite a few positive reviews about Ruth Galloway series and after another one of those I decided to finally give this one a go. So glad I did. Ruth Galloway is an almost 40 years old, plump archaeolo...
I was pleasantly surprised by this book! I really enjoyed getting to know Ruth and Nelson. I think I needed something without gore, cussing, psychological darkness. Not that this was light reading by any means. The salt water marsh setting was a major character, and the archeological artifacts and mythic stories added a sense of doom. I've already ordered the next two books in the series!
I know that this book had mixed reviews when it was published but the audiobook was wonderful! The narrator got all of the accents right on and by her rendering of the novel I could absolutely picture the salt marshes, the wind, the mud and smell the salt in the air. What an incredible place these marshes are and I didn't know anything about them.The characters I found to be interesting. Ruth Galloway is a forensic archeologist who lives at the edge of the marshes because she loves the solitude....
Despite being a lover of crime fiction I hadn’t heard of this book or author before I was invited to go to the Harrogate Crime Fiction Awards last month. Elly’s book The Crossing Places had been shortlisted along with people like Ian Rankin and Mark Billingham and it was what she said on stage about her book having many layers that piqued my interest. What an acolade to have your book nominated and then shortlisted for such a high profile event as this, and I love that there was two debut author...
