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Author
Series
Ruth Galloway mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Assisting with the investigation of bones found near England's Saltmarsh region, archaeologist Ruth Galloway discovers that the remains are bizarrely linked to a case involving a disturbed anonymous letter-writer and a missing child.
Author
Series
Ruth Galloway mystery volume 2
Language
English
Description
Ruth Galloway is called in to investigate when builders, demolishing a large old house in Norwich to make way for a housing development, uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway -- minus the skull. Is it some ritual sacrifice or just plain straightforward murder? DCI Harry Nelson would like to find out -- and fast. It turns out the house was once a children's home. Nelson traces the Catholic priest who used to run the home. Father Hennessey...
Author
Series
A Ruth Galloway mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Returning from maternity leave to investigate recently discovered human bones on a remote beach, Dr. Ruth Galloway reluctantly partners with her baby's married father, DCI Harry Nelson, in a case involving a World War II crime.
4) A dying fall
Author
Series
A Ruth Galloway mystery volume 5
Language
English
Description
An old friend's death sends Ruth to Lancaster to investigate an important archaeological discovery, but what she finds is a mystery that may have gotten her friend murdered.
Author
Series
A Ruth Galloway mystery volume 4
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st Mariner Books edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop, she finds the museum's curator lying dead on the floor. Soon after, the museum's wealthy owner is also found dead, in his stables. These two deaths could be from natural causes, but once again Ruth and DCI Harry Nelson cross paths during the investigation. When threatening letters come to light, events take an even more sinister turn. But as...
Author
Series
Ruth Galloway mystery volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway uncovers the bones of a Victorian murderess while a baby snatcher threatens modern-day Norfolk in this exciting new entry in a beloved series. Every year a ceremony is held in Norwich for the bodies in the paupers' graves: the Service for the Outcast Dead. Ruth has a particular interest in this year's proceedings. Her recent dig at Norwich Castle turned up the body of the notorious Mother Hook, who was hanged...
Author
Series
A Ruth Galloway mystery volume 7
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages : genealogical tables ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The unsettling discovery of a downed World War II plane with a body inside inside leads forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson to uncover a wealthy family's secrets.
Author
Series
A Ruth Galloway mystery volume 8
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the next Ruth Galloway mystery, a vision of the Virgin Mary foreshadows a string of cold-blooded murders, revealing a dark current of religious fanaticism in an old medieval town. Known as England's Nazareth, the medieval town of Little Walsingham is famous for religious apparitions. So when Ruth Galloway's druid friend Cathbad sees a woman in a white dress and a dark blue cloak standing alone in the local cemetery one night, he takes her as...
Author
Series
Ruth Galloway mystery volume 9
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Norwich is riddled with old chalk-mining tunnels, but no one's sure exactly how many. When Ruth is called in to investigate a set of human remains found in one of them, she notices the bones are almost translucent, a sign they were boiled soon after death. Once more, she finds herself at the helm of a murder investigation. Meanwhile, DCI Nelson is hunting for a missing homeless woman, Barbara, who he hears has gone "underground." Could she have disappeared...
10) The dark angel
Author
Series
A Ruth Galloway Mystery volume 10
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway--described by Louise Penny as "a captivating amateur sleuth"--and DI Nelson have their summer vacations horribly disrupted by a murder in a medieval Italian town where dark secrets are buried as deep as bones"--
11) The stone circle
Author
Series
A Ruth Galloway mystery volume 11
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the eleventh installment of the award-winning Ruth Galloway series, she and DCI Nelson are haunted by a ghost from their past, just as their future lands on shaky ground"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"There's nothing Ruth Galloway hates more than amateur archaeologists, but when a group of them stumble upon Bronze Age artifacts alongside a dead body, she finds herself thrust into their midst-and into the crosshairs of a string of murders circling ever closer"--
Author
Series
Ruth Galloway mystery volume 14
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Pandemic lockdowns have Ruth Galloway feeling isolated from everyone but a new neighbor--until Nelson comes calling, investigating a decades-long string of murder-suicides that's looming ever closer. Three years after her late mother's death, Ruth is finally sorting through her things when she finds a curious relic: a decades-old photograph of Jean's Norfolk cottage with a peculiar inscription. Ruth returns to the cottage to uncover its meaning as...
15) The last remains
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the body of an archeology student, who went missing in 2002, is found during the renovation of a caf�e, Dr. Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson uncover a tangled web of relationships between the archeology group and the caf�e.
16) The last word
Author
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hired by the daughters of local writer Melody Chambers to investigate her death, believing she was murdered, Natalka and Edwin go undercover at a creative writing weekend at isolated Battle House where another murder occurs and by the time Edwin infiltrates a sinister book group, he finds himself in danger.