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4 and 1/2 Stars. This is an excellent book with wonderful characters.

We find Ruth at a dig site uncovering the bones of a famous supposed mass murderer from about 150 years ago. Because of her own child, Kate, Ruth is naturally horrified at the behavior of the woman. Phil, her boss, invites television on site. The TV crew is for a somewhat questionable show. Ruth meets an American who is going to narrate the show. He has the diaries of the dead woman. He also believes that the woman is innocent. Ruth finds the diaries disturbing reading.

While this is going on, someone is kidnapping young children. Although they are eventually returned to the parents unharmed, it is a terrifying experience for all involved. Judy's son, Michael, goes missing and Ruth becomes involved. The chase is on.

The kidnapper comes as a big surprise.

The truth about the 150 year old bones comes to light.

Another well-written, tightly plotted novel of Ruth and DCI Harry. I don't know how Ms. Griffiths keeps coming up with these plots. She is a wonderful writer and hats off to Elly Griffiths!!


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The Outcast Dead Ely Griffiths 9780857388902 Books Reviews

I wish I could do just to my review of the Elly Griffiths novels about Dr. Ruth Galloway since I have been reading them one after another on my device. I really like the way Griffiths has developed the story lines in each, and the characters and their relationships with each other. I feel that I really get to know each personality - Ruth, Cathbad, Shona, Judy, Michele, Harry - are all so well developed that as a reader I have them pictured in my mind. While some reviews find the stories slow or difficult, each one keeps me intrigued and I can't figure out what is going on until the very end. The minute the book ends I am ready to read the next one and I am quickly getting to the end of the series so I will have to find a new author that match Griffiths ability.
Each installment is harrowingly believable and yet different enough to keep the readers' interest.
I must confess that it's easy to identify with Ruth - confident in her field of expertise (forensic archeology) but at the same time juggling teaching, research, university politics, joyful single motherhood, poor body image and guilt - just like many of us. The other main characters also have great depth and "normal" reactions to the events in which they become embroiled, and without giving the reader a feeling of inevitability or formulaic writing.
The author goes far beyond the run-of-the-mill by developing years' worth of side stories that are true to life, and this keeps the books from becoming just another "expert helps police department" series. As each book is published, these side stories become valuable background and serve to bring the characters more fully to life. Thank you Elly Griffiths for your wonderful work in the genre.
Each volume of the Ruth Galloway mystery series combines archeology with a modern day mystery. The detective, Ruth Galloway, is a professor at a fictional university in northern England and the mother of a young daughter. Her specialty is finding and identifying old bones buried in the ancient and medieval ruins along the seacoast near the university. Like the other books in this series, the action focuses as much on Ruth's personal life as it does on the crime to be solved. This book is not for a reader who wants high tension and violence, but for someone like me who enjoys seeing the interactions of the characters as well as reading about crime. Each character is well-developed and believable. The only flaw I found in the book was that the modern crime is not as well integrated with the historical mystery as it is in the other books of this series. If you haven't read any books in this series, I recommend starting with the first book and following the sequence because the books build upon one another.
First Sentence Every year a ceremony is held at Norwich Castle for the bodies in the paupers’ graves the Service for the Outcast Dead.

Archeologist Ruth Galloway is on a dig at Norwich Castle when she uncovers the remains of a woman who may be Jemima Green, aka Mother Hook. She was a woman in the 1800s, thought to have taken in orphaned and abandoned children, only to murder and sell them to a resurrectionist. Her boss interests a television station in including the dig in their program, “Women who Kill,” but the show’s historian Professor Frank Barker, believes Mother Hook was innocent. DCI Harry Nelson, father to Ruth’s daughter, suspects a mother of recently killing her son. Did she also kill her two other children? And who is the “Childminder” who claims responsibility for newly abducted children?

It is from the opening of Ruth attending the Prayers for the Outcast Dead, a service to remember the buried unknown souls buried, that we learn the reasons why Ruth became an archeologist…”To find out about how ordinary people lived their lives. We are their recorders….”

Griffiths has created a wonderful assortment of characters. However, one criticism is that there are so many, they are hard to keep straight. Also, if one is new to the series, I suspect they might find it a bit challenging keeping straight those new to this story and those carried forward from the past, especially those only referenced but not actual participants. That said, one of the things most appreciated is that Griffiths not only presents the events happening to the characters, but lets us see inside them to their fears and insecurities. She also captures perfectly the one-upmanship that can occur amongst strangers in a social setting.

Although Ruth is a wonderful character—not young, not svelte, not gorgeous, somewhat insecure about her skills as a mother, but an excellent archeologist, and we learn about more about her immediate family, it is her friend Cathbad, a druid who believes in things unseen but also suffers from heartache, who quickly becomes a favorite. “…He could burn some herbs and try to meditate. …He sighs and goes to look up Judy’s house on Google Earth.”

“The Outcast Dead” was an enjoyable read but, sadly, not Ms. Griffiths best book. There were just too many characters and families with crossed lines to one another that made it difficult to follow. I like the series very much, but this needed to be pared back, perhaps to only one, or two story lines. Still, that doesn’t put me off looking forward to Ms. Griffiths next book.

THE OUTCAST DEAD (Lic Invest-Ruth Galloway-England-Contemp) – G+
Griffiths, Elly – 6th in series
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014
4 and 1/2 Stars. This is an excellent book with wonderful characters.

We find Ruth at a dig site uncovering the bones of a famous supposed mass murderer from about 150 years ago. Because of her own child, Kate, Ruth is naturally horrified at the behavior of the woman. Phil, her boss, invites television on site. The TV crew is for a somewhat questionable show. Ruth meets an American who is going to narrate the show. He has the diaries of the dead woman. He also believes that the woman is innocent. Ruth finds the diaries disturbing reading.

While this is going on, someone is kidnapping young children. Although they are eventually returned to the parents unharmed, it is a terrifying experience for all involved. Judy's son, Michael, goes missing and Ruth becomes involved. The chase is on.

The kidnapper comes as a big surprise.

The truth about the 150 year old bones comes to light.

Another well-written, tightly plotted novel of Ruth and DCI Harry. I don't know how Ms. Griffiths keeps coming up with these plots. She is a wonderful writer and hats off to Elly Griffiths!!