The Lantern Men: Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 12 (The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries)

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It’s enjoyable to make guesses, particularly when reading this mystery book series. This book had so many red herrings but they’re all presented in such a subtle manner. Ditto the extreme suspense. It seems to arise naturally including during many places in the story, not just the obvious ones.

The boulder hit All Saints Church in the little village of Tilney in Norfolk, and this is indeed where Tom was buried. THE AUTHOR: Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway novels take for their inspiration Elly's husband, who gave up a city job to train as an archaeologist, and her aunt who lives on the Norfolk coast and who filled her niece's head with the myths and legends of that area. Elly has two children and lives near Brighton. I received a copy of this book from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Netgalley in return for an unbiased review. I can enjoy the unintended humor (the food, the soap opera like happenings, the needless putting oneself & others in danger) along with enjoying the humor written to be amusing. I do appreciate the humor in these books. The humor makes them better and makes them seem more real too. The characters do feel like real people. They’re the best part of these books. The characters and the settings. The settings are wonderful, and I learn so much about English places.

In the meantime, DCI Harry Nelson and DI Judy Johnson are interviewing Ivor March who has been arrested for the murders of two young women. March buried the bodies in the garden of his present girlfriend's home. Chantal still believes that he is innocent even with DNA saying otherwise. Now Marsh insists that Ruth do the forensic digging. Oh, and by the way, Crissy happens to be March's ex-wife. The Lantern Men is the latest instalment in Ruth Galloway’s story. For those who don’t know, Ruth is a forensic archaeologist. In earlier books, while teaching at the fictitious University of North Norfolk, she occasionally helped with police cases and had a brief affair with DI Harry Nelson, which resulted in the birth of her daughter Kate. The ensuing family complications are just one of the common threads that run through all these stories. Another local man stated that he encountered the attention of a lantern man when he whistled for his dog. To avoid the encounter, this man took shelter at a friend’s home who hung a horn outside to distract the spirit. The following morning the horn was found burned. Joseph Bexfield

If you thought that carrying your own torch would deter the lantern men, then you would be sorely mistaken, as reports from sightings said that he always in fact ran toward the light. Read More Related Articles There was a belief that it was able to 'take away a man's breath', though there is in fact a more scientific explanation for this. I read the Kindle edition in the Kindle app on my pad. Pandemic style reading. It was hell to wait the extra wait. Two delays actually. One was the inability to borrow the hardcover edition because my library is still closed and the other glitch was that the type of e-edition I first got was unreadable. Axis 360 never ever works for me. Much gratitude to the SFPL staff who helped me and put me first in the queue for the ePub Overdrive and/or Kindle edition. Both of these formats work for me. It is thought that the Lantern Man lured the unsuspecting Joseph Bexfield to his death in the Norfolk Fens. The wherryman had been enjoying a drink with his fellow sailors in August 1809 when he remembered he had left a parcel for his wife on the wherry.

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Ruth stands frozen with her hand on the car door. Ivor March wants her to be involved in the case. A serial killer not only knows her name but is requesting her assistance. Should she refuse? This isn’t her case, after all. She thinks of Frank’s words last night. ‘You’ve got a new team now.’ But, of course, deep down, she wants to do it. She wants to be the one to find the bodies.” DCI Harry Nelson and DI Judy Johnson are pleased that Ivor March has been found guilty of the murder of two young women. While Nelson believes he has killed at least two more women, March is still claiming his innocence of all the murders. However, he tells Nelson he will tell him where to find the other two bodies if Ruth Galloway can be involved in the forensic exhumation of the bodies. Can it really have been 12 books, and 10 years of Ruth's life pining away for Nelson? I first fell in love with Ruth, a forensic archaeologists, by her forward thinking, completely genuine, intelligent, yet self-deprecating attitude. But I'm tired of waiting for the Nelson drama to fix itself. Their simmering passions, and in earlier books, their frantic coupling (that produce their daughter while Nelson was married), have turned into a soap opera and I'm done wondering when they'll either realize they are perfectly imperfect together, or let the whole thing go, and be happy in other relationships. He feels deeply aggrieved. He is surely within his rights to tell Ruth not to take Katie, HIS daughter, to a house that once belonged to a murderer? How dare Ruth hang up on him like that?" This series is my current favorite mystery series. Wonderful, memorable, endearing characters. Fabulous settings. Humor. Not much gore or violence. Interesting archeology, history, folklore. I envy readers yet to read any or most of the books out so far. I read books 1-11 in about 5 months and have to wait 7 months to read book 12. It will be a longer wait for book 13.