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

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Nelson's contact in his old stomping ground confirms suspicious circumstances surrounding Dan's death, eventually launching a murder enquiry. 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. Beyond Ruth's fence, the long grass is tawny and gold with the occasional flash of dark blue water as the marsh leads out to the sea.

I look forward to seeing more of Sgt Tim (hoping he will follow Nelson back south, as he is an intriguing character. But when she receives a letter that Dan had written just before he died, her sadness turns to suspicion. Once again Elly Griffiths has managed to combine a dose of the continuing soap opera on the Saltmarsh with a stimulating mystery, finding new areas for Ruth to explore which prove both fascinating and eye-opening. 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. Having stirred the memories and commiserated, Ruth is somewhat surprised to get a handwritten letter from Dan the very next day.So, the new, the familiar, and the nuance in the familiar make for a beloved, anticipated-next-book series. When she arrives in Lancashire, Ruth discovers that the bones reveal a shocking fact about King Arthur--and that the bones have mysteriously vanished. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. Dying Fall sees Kate now eighteen-months-old and Ruth combining motherhood with her working life as a specialist in forensic archaeology, resident at the University of North Norfolk.

Ruth lives in a saltmarsh cottage near there, with her 18 month old daughter Kate and her cat Flint.She and Ruth have settled into a comfortable routine and her godfather Cathbad has bonded with this little dyad. Elly Griffiths is the author of the Ruth Galloway and Brighton mystery series, as well as the standalone novels The Stranger Diaries, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and The Postscript Murders. It is the stuff of which readers dream and the well-deserved winner of the Mary Higgins Clark Award.

So imagine my surprise settling down on my train trip to Blackpool from Scotland to discover the book set in and around the blackpool area, which brought the whole story alive for me as I knew where Ruth and Kate were located. For the female voices and the story line, Clare Corbett does an excellent job, but her male and child voices sounds like a caricature. The two teamed up to solve several crimes since Ruth is an expert on bones, and now Ruth is seconded to the Serious Crime Unit, which is headed by Nelson. Ruth started dating Max, the archaeologist, some months ago, but in this book she realises that the person she is in love with is Nelson, so we understand that she is going to break up with Max.With Ruth's and Kate's lives increasingly in danger, Nelson becomes involved in a police investigation into Dan Golding's death conducted by his hometown police friend. It doesn't take long for Golding's killer to set his/her sights on Ruth and worse, her toddler daughter, Ruth uses her considerable intellect, her enigmatic friend Cathbad, and the father of her daughter DCI Nelson to unravel the mystery even as other lives are claimed in the murderer's effort to stop Ruth from uncovering the truth.

He meets his friend Sandy Macleod, now at Blackpool CID, who tells him there are mysterious circumstances surrounding Dan's death. In the first book they slept together, finding comfort in each other after a very taxing day, and then she got pregnant and had her baby daughter, Kate. Despite really enjoying the mystery, the historical events the mystery involved and thoroughly enjoying the characters a couple of things were slight minuses for me.Ruth’s grief soon turns to suspicion of arson when she receives a desperate letter from Dan, sent the day before he died. Who, but Nelson, would see plastic meats laid out in a kitchen display at a National Trust property and think of an autopsy? There isn’t a huge amount of it but what there is sometimes makes me laugh out loud and I enjoy all of it. When I asked my PLN whether they considered it a mistake to craft an unlikable main character, many thought it was OK if that character was interesting enough. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees.