Elly Griffiths - [Ruth Galloway 06] - The Outcast Dead (epub)

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Elly Griffiths - [Ruth Galloway 06] - The Outcast Dead (epub)



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Name: Elly Griffiths - [Ruth Galloway 06] - The Outcast Dead (epub)
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Title: The Outcast Dead
Author: Elly Griffiths
Language: English
Year: 2014
Subjects: Mystery, Contemporary, Suspense, Adult, Historical, Thriller
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780547792774
Total pages: 400 str.

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 at Norwich Castle 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 in 1867 for the murder of five children. Now Ruth is the reluctant star of the TV series Women Who Kill, working alongside the program's alluring history expert, Professor Frank Barker.
DCI Harry Nelson is immersed in the case of three children found dead in their home. He is sure that the mother is responsible. Then another child is abducted and a kidnapper dubbed the Childminder claims responsibility. Are there two murderers afoot, or is the Childminder behind all the deaths? The team must race to find out-and the stakes couldn't be any higher when another child goes missing.

From Booklist
Griffiths bases her title and the book's opening scene on an actual ceremony for "the outcast dead" (paupers and prostitutes long ago flung into a mass grave), held every year at Cross Bones Graveyard in London. The ceremony, which Griffiths transports to Norwich, fits beautifully with the fictional recent find at Norwich Castle of a grave likely containing the bones of Mother Hook, a woman hanged outside the castle for murdering children entrusted to her care. Heroine Ruth Galloway, the Norwich University lecturer and forensic archaeologist seen in five previous mysteries, does a star turn for a TV series in considering the guilt or innocence of the Victorian Mother Hook. At the same time, Galloway's sometime lover and father of her three-year-old daughter, DCI Nelson, investigates the wrenching case of a mother accused of smothering her baby. Griffiths deftly blends the themes of two women accused of child killing. Then she turns up the heat under this seething cauldron of blame and guilt by having two Norwichchildren kidnapped. A deft blend of death in the past, death in the present, and death chillingly close to occurring. --Connie Fletcher

Review
Praise for the Ruth Galloway Mystery Series
"Elly Griffiths draws us all the way back to prehistoric times.Highly atmospheric." -***The New York Times Book Review

• "Galloway is an everywoman, smart, successful and a little bit unsure of herself. Readers will look forward to learning more about her." -***USA Today　

• "Ruth Galloway is a remarkable, delightful character.A must-read for fans of crime and mystery fiction." -***Associated Press

"Forensic archeologist and academic Ruth Galloway is a captivating amateur sleuth-an inspired creation. I identified with her insecurities and struggles, and cheered her on. " -**Louise Penny, author of the bestselling Armand Gamache series
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"These books are must-reads." -**Deborah Crombie, author of the Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James series
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"[Ruth Galloway's] an uncommon, down-to-earth heroine whose acute insight, wry humor, and depth of feeling make her a thoroughly engaging companion." -Erin Hart, Agatha and Anthony Award nominated author of Haunted Ground and *Lake of Sorrows

"A wonderfully rich mixture of ancient and contemporary, superstition and rationality, with a cast of druids, dreamers and assorted tree-huggers as well as some thoroughly modern villains.A great series." -***The Guardian

• "[An] excellent series.Skillful and engaging." -***The Globe and Mail

• "Griffiths is one of England's freshest mystery writers. Her novels combine a dramatic sense of place with a complicated mystery, and with each new installment, her character of Ruth Galloway becomes more complex and dynamic." -***Curled Up with a Good Book

• "Griffiths does a lot to humanize forensic archaeology and serves up great dollops of historical details in her Ruth Galloway series.Griffiths is great at conveying the archaeologist's passion for finds, forensic or historic." -**Booklist, starred review

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"Griffiths is a true mystery writer." -Ann Arbor News

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