In this case, a colleague of Galloway's (Dan Golding) discovers them, contacts Ruth, but dies in a mysterious house fire before he can discuss his find. They’ve all been terrific so far and I’m awfully glad I have quite a few to go before I await them, hopefully, annually. I have often wondered what exactly it was that those Elizabethan musicians chose to play as Orsino makes this speech. Twelfth Night was written as a Christmas production, a kind of 16th-century Love Actually that was to be played on the twelfth night of the holiday, and in Elizabethan times it would have been accompanied by the bawdy performance of live music, a band playing along as the Duke makes this speech in which he famously describes music as “the food of love. Elly Griffiths is the USA Today bestselling 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, The Postscript Murders, and Bleeding Heart Yard .

of the Ruth Galloway novels – a series of crime novels featuring a Norfolk based forensic archaeologist and of particular interest to me given my interests in both Norfolk and archaeology (see my review of “The Janus Stone”). He wrote that he believed he had found “The Raven King” in an archeological dig, and wanted her to come give a second opinion on the bones. When Nelson, visiting his mother in Blackpool, learns about the case, he is drawn into the investigation, especially when Ruth and his beloved Kate seem to be in danger.In this book she comes across Cathbad and Ruth, and naturally, she doesn’t know that Kate is Harry’s daughter.

I really enjoyed book 5 of this Ruth Galloway series, parts of it even more than the previous books. AU PHOTO] ELLY GRIFFITHS s Ruth Galloway novels have been praised as gripping (Louise Penny), highly atmospheric (New York Times Book Review) and must-reads for fans of crime fiction (Associated Press).Ruth makes the trip to Blackpool to investigate, wary of encroaching on DCI Harry Nelson’s home ground. Griffiths, like Elizabeth George, puts you smack amidst the English landscape in her scenes, characterizations, language, customs. When Michelle discovers the truth about Kate, she bans him from seeing Ruth or Kate, but after he falls seriously sick, Michelle agrees to let him see Kate on regular basis.