Första boken med Ruth Galloway, arkeolog och benexpert. När polisen hittar människoben utanför King's Lynn i Norfolk, misstänker man att det är kvarlevorna efter Lucy Downey, en flicka som kidnappades tio år tidigare. Ruth kallas in vilket leder till att hon lär känna kriminalkommissarie Harry Nelson.

Andra boken med Ruth Galloway och Harry Nelson. Galloway kallas till en utgrävning i Norfolk, där man hittat ett skelett till synes begravt under en vägg. Vid en byggarbetsplats i Norwich dyker ytterligare ett skelett upp. Här har det tidigare funnits ett barnhem, drivet av den katolska kyrkan. Nelson får hand om fallet.

Tredje boken med arkeologen Ruth Galloway och kriminalkommissarie Harry Nelson. Ruth blir kontaktad när man i det lilla samhället Broughton Sea's End hittar benen efter sex döda män. Benen dateras till tiden för andra världskriget. Nu riskerar en gammal välbevarad hemlighet att avslöjas.

Fjärde boken med rättsarkeologen Ruth Galloway och kriminalkommissarie Harry Nelson. I ett museum ägt av lord Smith ska Ruth övervaka öppnandet av en medeltida kista. Hon hittar intendenten livlös bredvid. Nelson får hand om fallet som visar sig vara mord. Snart dör ytterligare en person och Nelson insjuknar oförklarligt.

Sjunde boken om rättsarkeologen Ruth Galloway och kommissarie Harry Nelson. På en byggarbetsplats i Norfolk hittas ett flygplansvrak från andra världskriget. Ruth inser snart att kvarlevorna i planet inte är så gamla. DNA-tester visar att mannen är Fred Blackstock som rapporterats saknad till havs. Ytterligare en kropp hittas.

Åttonde boken om rättsarkeologen Ruth Galloway och kommissarie Harry Nelson. Ruths vän Cathbad vaktar ett hus i pilgrimsorten Walsingham i Norfolk. En kväll får han på kyrkogården syn på en ung kvinna klädd i nattlinne och morgonrock. På morgonen hittas hon död utanför Walsingham och Nelson kallas in. Samtidigt har en gammal vän till Ruth börjat få hätska, anonyma brev som riktar sig mot kvinnliga präster och refererar till ortens arkeologi.

Nionde boken om rättsarkeologen Ruth Galloway och kriminalinspektör Harry Nelson. I en gammal kalkstenstunnel i Norwich hittas ben från ett människoskelett. När Ruth Galloway undersöker benen verkar det som om de nyligen har kokats och grävts ner. Harry Nelson får hand om fallet och efter att en ung kvinna anmälts försvunnen börjar han undersöka mystiska rykten om ett underjordiskt samhälle för hemlösa. Ytterligare kvinnor försvinner.

Tionde boken om rättsarkeologen Ruth Galloway och kommissarie Harry Nelson. Ruth blir smickrad när hon kontaktas av den italienska arkeologen som hon tillbringade en natt med för länge sedan. Han behöver hjälp med att uttolka ett fynd av benrester i en bergsby nära Rom. Ruth åker dit men vistelsen blir inte så rofylld som hon tänkt sig. Mörka hemligheter avslöjas och när ett mord sker är Ruth glad att kommissarie Harry Nelson dyker upp.

Elfte boken om Ruth Galloway. Ruth och Nelsons framtid är osäker eftersom Nelsons fru ska föda barn snart. Nelson har fått en rad hotfulla anonyma brev. De påminner om brev han fick för länge sedan. De ledde till ett fall och en flicka han inte kunde rädda. Ruth arbetar med en utgrävning i Norfolks saltängar och plötsligt hittas benrester i en cirkel av sten. De visar sig tillhöra en försvunnen tolvåring.

Det mesta är nytt i Ruth Galloways värld. Hon har en ny partner, ett nytt hem och ett nytt jobb. Men när hennes gamla kollega kriminalkommissarie Harry Nelson tar kontakt och ber om hennes hjälp kan hon inte motstå att säga ja.Den dömde mördaren Ivor March har äntligen erkänt att han faktiskt mördat fler personer, något Nelson alltid misstänkt, men Ivor tänker inte berätta var de är begravda om inte Ruth kopplas in på fallet. Ivor March berättar för Ruth att han har mördat fyra kvinnor, och att deras kroppar är begravda nära en by vid kärren, som sägs vara hemsökta av irrbloss.Men är Ivor March ett irrbloss som lurar Ruth tillbaka till Norfolk? Har han en dold plan, och varför är Ruth så viktig för honom? Är det säkert att de sett det sista liket?

Trettonde boken om Ruth Galloway. En grupp metallsökare är ute och söker efter skatter på stranden när de hittar en död pojke från trakten. Kort därefter mördas ett par på en isolerad gård som heter Black Dog. Ruth gräver fram kvarlevorna av en enorm hund i trädgården till det stora huset. Lokala sägner berättar om en svart hund som visar sig för människor innan de dör. Ruth är inte lättskrämd, men Black Dog ger henne kalla kårar./Btj

Det låsta rummet är den fjortonde delen i Elly Griffiths bästsäljande serie om rättsarkeologen Ruth Galloway och kriminalinspektör Nelson. Coronapandemin har stängt ner Storbritannien och Ruth och dottern Kate isolerar sig i stugan i Norfolk. Deras enda sällskap är den vänliga grannen Zoe – till dess Nelson bryter mot karantänsreglerna. Han ber om hjälp med utredningen av en rad misstänkta självmord med kopplingar till en arkeologisk fyndplats. Snart inser han att Ruths granne Zoe är misstänkt lik en kvinna som stod åtalad för mord några år tidigare. Men den kvinnan hette Dawn. Ledtrådarna för Nelson allt närmare Zoe. Men innan han har lösningen försvinner hon, Ruth och Kate spårlöst. Nelson inleder en förtvivlad jakt för att hitta dem innan det är för sent.

Ruth's old friend Dan Golding thinks he has made a discovery that will change archaeology forever - but he needs Ruth's help. Then, Dan is killed in a fire, leaving Ruth with one clue: the tomb of the Raven King.

DCI Nelson is also rediscovering the past. He meets his friend Sandy Macleod, now at Blackpool CID, who tells him there are mysterious circumstances surrounding Dan's death. A Neo-Nazi group at Dan's University has been making threats and could be involved.

Many of Dan's colleagues seem fearful and have secrets to hide. Ruth is drawn into the mystery, and where she goes, so does her daughter, Kate. This time, it's not just Ruth's life at risk.

Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway has excavated a body from the grounds of Norwich Castle, once a prison. The body may be that of Victorian murderess Jemima Green. Called Mother Hook for her claw-like hand, Jemima was hanged for the murder of five children.

DCI Harry Nelson has no time for long-ago killers. Investigating the case of three infants found dead, one after the other, in their King's Lynn home, he's convinced that their mother is responsible.

Then a child goes missing. Could the abduction be linked to the long-dead Mother Hook? Ruth is pulled into the case, and back towards Nelson.

When a bullet-ridden body is unearthed from a buried WWII plane, Dr Ruth Galloway must find out who the victim was - and who put him there.

Norfolk is experiencing a July heatwave when a construction crew unearths a macabre discovery - a buried WWII 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 dead at sea. When the remaining members of the Blackstock family learn about the discovery, they seem strangely frightened by the news.

Events are further complicated by a TV company that wants to make a film about Norfolk's deserted air force bases, the so-called Ghost Fields, which have been partially converted into a pig farm run by one of the younger Blackstocks. As production begins, Ruth notices a mysterious man lurking close to the Blackstocks' family home.

As the biggest storm Norfolk has seen in decades brews in the distance, human bones are found on the family's pig farm. Can the team outrace a looming flood to find a killer?

Boiled human bones have been found in Norwich's web of underground tunnels. When Dr Ruth Galloway discovers they were recently buried, DCI Nelson has a murder enquiry on his hands. The boiling might have been just a medieval curiosity - now it suggests a much more sinister purpose. Meanwhile, DS Judy Johnson is investigating the disappearance of a local rough sleeper. The only trace of her is the rumour that she's gone 'underground'. This might be a figure of speech, but with the discovery of the bones and the rumours both Ruth and the police have heard that the network of old chalk-mining tunnels under Norwich is home to a vast community of rough sleepers, the clues point in only one direction. Local academic Martin Kellerman knows all about the tunnels and their history - but can his assertions of cannibalism and ritual killing possibly be true? As the weather gets hotter, tensions rise. A local woman goes missing and the police are under attack. Ruth and Nelson must unravel the dark secrets of The Underground and discover just what gruesome secrets lurk at its heart - before it claims another victim.

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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 Castello degli Angeli, accompanied by her daughter Kate and friend Shona. In the town she finds a baffling Roman mystery and a dark secret involving the war years and the Resistance. To her amazement she also soon finds Harry Nelson, with Cathbad in tow. But there is no time to overcome their mutual shock - the ancient bones spark a modern murder, and Ruth must discover what secrets there are in Castello degli Angeli that someone would kill to protect

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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 first drew him into the case of The Crossing Place s, and to Ruth. But the author of those letters is dead. Or are they?

Meanwhile Ruth is working on a dig in the Saltmarsh - another henge, known by the archaeologists as the stone circle - trying not to think about the baby. Then bones are found on the site, and identified as those of Margaret Lacey, a twelve-year-old girl who disappeared thirty years ago.

As the Margaret Lacey case progresses, more and more aspects of it begin to hark back to that first case of The Crossing Places , and to Scarlett Henderson, the girl Nelson couldn't save. The past is reaching out for Ruth and Nelson, and its grip is deadly.

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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 Ivor 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 show Nelson where the other bodies are buried - but only if Ruth will do the digging.

Curious, but wary, Ruth agrees. March tells Ruth that he killed four more women and that their bodies are buried near a village bordering the fens, said to be haunted by the Lantern Men, mysterious figures holding lights that lure travellers to their deaths.

Is Ivor March himself a lantern man, luring Ruth back to Norfolk? What is his plan, and why is she so crucial to it? And are the killings really over?

**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** Forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson are on the hunt for a murderer when Covid rears its ugly head. But can they find the killer despite lockdown? 'GALLOWAY NOW SEEMS AS REAL AS MARPLE AND MORSE' The Times 'INTENSELY ATMOSPHERIC AND GREAT' India KnightForensic archaeologist Dr Ruth is in London clearing out her mother's belongings when she makes a surprising discovery: a photograph of her Norfolk cottage taken before Ruth lived there. Her mother always hated the cottage, so why does she have a picture of the place? The only clue is written on the back of the photo: Dawn, 1963. Ruth returns to Norfolk determined to solve the mystery, but then Covid rears its ugly head. Ruth and her daughter are locked down in their cottage, attempting to continue with work and home-schooling. Happily, the house next door is rented by a nice woman called Zoe, who they become friendly with while standing on their doorsteps clapping for carers.Nelson, meanwhile, is investigating a series of deaths of women that may or may not be suicide. When he links the deaths to an archaeological discovery, he breaks curfew to visit the cottage where he finds Ruth chatting to her neighbour whom he remembers as a carer who was once tried for murdering her employer.Only then her name wasn't Zoe. It was Dawn.******************************** PRAISE FOR THE LOCKED ROOM 'Intelligent and gripping' Daily Express 'A terrific story' The Times 'This is Griffiths on top form' Mail on Sunday 'Charming from start to finish' Irish Independent A Sunday Times bestseller w/c 07/02/2022

Ruth and DCI Nelson are working on a murder case in which their friend Cathbad emerges as the prime suspect. Can they uncover the truth in time to save him?

'Galloway now seems as real as Marple and Morse' The Times

When builders renovating a café in King's Lynn unearth a human skeleton, they call for DCI Harry Nelson and Dr Ruth Galloway, Head of Archaeology at the University of North Norfolk. Ruth is preoccupied with the threatened closure of her department and by her ever-complicated relationship with Nelson.

The bones are identified as those of Emily Pickering, an archaeology student who went missing in the 1990s. Emily attended a course run by her Cambridge tutor. Suspicion falls on him and on another course member - Ruth's friend Cathbad, who is still frail following his near death from Covid. As they investigate, Nelson and his team uncover a tangled web of relationships within the student group and the adults leading them. Then, just when the team seem to be making progress, Cathbad disappears.

The trail leads Ruth and Nelson to the Neolithic flint mines in Grime's Graves. The race is on, first to find Cathbad and then to exonerate him, but will Ruth and Nelson uncover the truth in time to save their friend?

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' Kept you guessing until the very end' 5* Reader Review