The Dark Angel
The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, Book 10
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The Dark Angel
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Jane McDowell
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Jane McDowell
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Elly Griffiths
About this listen
From the Sunday Times best-selling author, the 10th Dr Ruth Galloway mystery - celebrating 10 years of Ruth.
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.
©2018 Elly Griffiths (P)2018 Quercus Editions LimitedCritic Reviews
"My favourite current crime series." (Val McDermid)
worth a listen
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Ruth Galloway saga
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This installment takes up immediately after number nine where Ruth had received a couple of pieces of stressful news. So, when a former colleague asks for her help at an Italian archaeological dig, she jumps at the chance to get away.
Ruth travels to Italy, accompanied by her daughter Kate, her friend Shona, and Shona’s son. Her working holiday, however, doesn't turn out to be as relaxing as she thought it would. Aside from the stifling heat and mountainous terrain of the small town they are staying in, Ruth has to contend with threatening graffiti, earthquakes, and, of course, murder.
If that isn’t enough, Nelson arrives unexpectedly and unannounced to throw his macho weight around.
This book has such a great start - where some newly discovered bones at the archaeology site manage to make a call to the mobile of the man about to dig them up. And the mystery plot doesn’t slow down from that moment on. The Dark Angel even manages to include a great little crime/mystery subplot for the characters who stayed behind in Norfolk. In fact, out of all of the Ruth mystery plots, this was one of my favourites.
But, as I say in every review of this series, it’s not the mystery plot that really interests me, it’s the soap opera life of the characters.
There were a few moments that I was unsure of here. I just didn’t think Nelson and Ruth would make some of the decisions they did in this book. (As I said, I feel like I know them personally and therefore, think I know how they’d act, LOL.)
It’s only a minor gripe, however, and, for the most, I adored reading about the private lives of the characters, just as always.
I was impressed by how Griffiths again squeezed in so many of the series’ familiar characters. She even found a way to let Nelson’s daughter, Laura, have some moments in the sun. I really liked Laura's scenes and inner thoughts and look forward to her being used again in a future book.
As usual, Griffiths left us on a cliffhanger. I’m not terribly sure about this one either but I’ll have to wait and see where she goes with it when book 11 comes out next month. (Thank goodness I've timed this so I don't have long to wait!)
5 out of 5
Love this series
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thoroughly enjoy this series
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The characters have become a family to me - congratulations to the author for maintaining continuity by constantly enriching the lives of the character, thereby creating a grippping story line.
Bravo
This was another great Ruth Galloway
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Good grief
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Will I read the next installment? If the month is quiet and I want a mild distraction I probably will.
Familiar and comfortable, but no great sparkle
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For me in reading and enjoying fiction there needs to be strong elements of believability in the story for me to continue reading. But this offering from Elly Griffiths kills thd series dead for me.
If you too have been a fan then borrow from a library or partner buy but that is my last read of this series.
This Needs to End
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