AuthorElly Griffiths
NarratorJane Mcdowell
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 13
Duration9h 22m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries
PublisherQuercus
VersionUnabridged
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 North Norfolk. At first Nelson thinks that the dead man might be an asylum seeker, but he turns out to be a local boy, Jem Taylor, recently released from prison. Ruth is more interested in the treasure, a hoard of Bronze Age weapons. Nelson at first thinks that Taylor's death is accidental drowning, but a second death suggests murder.
Nelson is called to an apparent murder-suicide of a couple at the isolated Black Dog Farm. Local legend talks of the Black Shuck, a spectral hound that appears to people before they die. Nelson ignores this, even when the owner's suicide note includes the line, 'He's buried in the garden'. Ruth excavates and finds the body of a giant dog.
All roads lead back to this farm in the middle of nowhere, but the place spells serious danger for anyone who goes near. Ruth doesn't scare easily. Not until she finds herself at Black Dog Farm....
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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The Woman In Blue: Ruth Galloway Book 8
Author: Elly Griffiths
Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 8
Duration 9h 44m
The murder of women priests in the shrine town of Walsingham sucks Dr. Ruth Galloway into an unholy investigation. Ruth's friend, Cathbad, is housesitting in Walsingham, a Norfolk village famous as a centre for pilgrimages to the Virgin Mary. One night, Cathbad sees a strange vision in the graveyard beside the cottage: a young woman dressed in blue...
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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 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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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 Janus Stone: Ruth Galloway Book 2
Author: Elly Griffiths
Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Jane Mcdowell
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 2
Duration 9h
Dr Ruth Galloway's forensic skills are called upon when builders, demolishing an old house in Norwich, uncover the bones of a child - minus the skull - beneath a doorway. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? Ruth links up with DCI Harry Nelson to investigate. The house was once a children's home. Nelson traces the Catho...
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The House at Sea's End: Ruth Galloway Book 3
Author: Elly Griffiths
Author Elly Griffiths
Narrator Clare Corbett
SeriesA Dr Ruth Galloway Mystery, Book 3
Duration 9h 39m
Ruth Galloway has just returned from maternity leave and is struggling to juggle work and motherhood. When a team from the University of North Norfolk, investigating coastal erosion, finds six bodies buried at the foot of the cliff, she is immediately put on the case. Forensic tests prove that the bodies are from Southern Europe, killed sixty years...
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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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