A Dying Fall: A Mystery: 5 (Ruth Galloway Mysteries)

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The scenery was nice and the mystery around King Arthur and the twist about his origins a quiet enjoyed reading about. This latest book penned by Elly Griffiths, "A Dying Fall" (Houghton Mifflin 2013) dwells on that rich content we armchair anthropologists love--ancient bones with stories to tell. Nelson's contact in his old stomping ground confirms suspicious circumstances surrounding Dan's death, eventually launching a murder enquiry.

It turns out that Dan’s laptop and cellphone are missing, and the police are already treating his death as suspicious. And it is, despite being one of those present tense books that always take me a few chapters to get used to. The conflict between personalities with a background of financial problems are always going to lead to trouble and are very well described. THE AUTHOR: Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway novels take for their inspiration Elly's husband, who gave up a city job to train as an archaeologist, and her aunt who lives on the Norfolk coast and who filled her niece's head with the myths and legends of that area. So our intrepid forensic archaeologist heads to Blackpool as does DCI Harry Nelson (her baby daddy) with his wife to visit family.As for Nelson, he genuinely loves his wife, who’s perfect in every way, but he finds Ruth interesting … so, I’m keen on seeing how Griffiths develops this. Dying Fall is the fifth fantastic novel in the much loved Dr Ruth Galloway series and sees Ruth and the gang on tour, straying into the birthplace of DCI Harry Nelson and the delights of Blackpool Pleasure Beach! Jane McDowell's strident, grating voice would leave me clenching my teeth after only a few moments of listening.

Clare Corbett is a good narrator and have liked her very much for other books but she was not good for this book. The series has won the CWA Dagger in the Library, and has been shortlisted three times for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. I look forward to seeing more of Sgt Tim (hoping he will follow Nelson back south, as he is an intriguing character.

She quickly realizes the bones that likely caused her friend's death have been replaced by worthless substitutes. When she arrives in Lancashire, Ruth discovers that the bones reveal a shocking fact about King Arthur and that the bones have mysteriously vanished. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use.

What totally captured my attention, however, is the pulse-pounding conclusion — a term I hate as it’s often attached to action flicks and I hate action flicks. Hot on the heels, Dan's boss invites Ruth to inspect his findings and Cathbad and Kate accompany her as she ventures into territory she staunchly associates with Nelson. For the Turner Prize presentation, a lightbox stretches along one wall as a standalone work titled Saydnaya (the missing 19db). Michelle on the other hand I can't stand with no apparent reason but maybe she strucks out as a bit pretentious for my taste or because Nelson mostly mentions that she is good looking but says not much good about her personality! In the past he has read about people in fires being 'beaten back by the heat' and deep down he has always thought, 'Wimps.It is forbidden to copy anything for publication elsewhere without written permission from the copyright holder. Golding recently died in a house fire, but had written to Ruth asking for her help with his amazing find. Firstly, her main detecting figure, Ruth Galloway, is a forensic archaeologist, a discipline I find fascinating. Ruth is most definitely in love with Harry Nelson (frankly, I don’t blame her, there’s something darkly handsome and compelling about him), but their relationship is antagonistic, with moments of shared tenderness over their daughter. Of course, she is promptly contacted by his faculty with a request to evaluate a recent archaeological find and wouldn't you know that it's in Nelson's home stomping grounds.

A Dying Fall , like all of Griffiths work, combines an intriguing plot with well-drawn characters topped by the ever-fascinating Ruth and a keen sense of place and history. At first I thought I was hallucinating--no WAY her clownish male characterizations would have been permitted.As this book begins, Ruth receives word that an old friend from her university days, Dan Golding, has died in a fire. A nice addition to the series--I love the main character, Ruth--and the location, which is another "character" in the stories. To sustain a great series, as Griffiths and Harris do, requires a lovely balance of various elements: firstly, there must be an element of surprise in the mystery, its context and motivations; secondly, an element of familiarity, in the detecting figures; thirdly, those familiar figures, if they prove introspective about their lives, which Ruth and Harry prove to be in every volume thus far, and the events occurring around the crime, grow more compelling. Ruth Galloway’s quiet routine of teaching and raising her daughter Kate, the fruit of her short affair with DCI Harry Nelson, is interrupted by the shocking news of her university friend Dan Golding’s death. She is very attractive and works as a hairdresser, and when she discovered that her husband slept with Ruth and they had a daughter, she banned him from seeing Kate and Ruth, but then after Harry was seriously ill, she changed her mind.