The Outcast Dead: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 6

Name: The Outcast Dead: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 6
Rating: 4.625 (40 reviews)

Elly Griffiths

Jan 2014 · Hachette UK

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Historical crimes involving a Victorian child killer may hold the key to several contemporary deaths in this macabre outing for Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist.

'Told with a deepening sense of the unease, seasoned with a touch of the occult' Daily Mail

Ruth has excavated a body from the grounds of Norwich Castle, which was 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.

Historical crimes involving a Victorian child killer may hold the key to several contemporary deaths in this macabre outing for Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist. 'Told with a deepening sense of the unease, seasoned with a touch of the occult' Daily Mail Ruth has excavated a body from the...

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Angela Morgan

June 24, 2020

Another in the Ruth Galloway series. I steer away from books about child abuse/missing children/infanticide, there's too much sensationalism about something abhorrent. But because I'm reading this series I was compelled to read this one and I liked the sensitive way Elly Griffiths wove the sad historic deaths of babies with concurrently events. Revealing the deep emotions of motherhood and surrogacy that a child invokes. I love the Norfolk accents and the characters built up around Ruth. I know them.

Gemma Hibbett

March 30, 2016

Can't get enough of this series keeps you hooked all the way through I can never put them down!

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RedBranchKnight 1

September 27, 2018

Amazingly powerful read and some really captivating characters!!

About the author

Elly Griffiths is a multi-award-winning author and a No. 1 bestseller. She has written twenty-eight crime novels for adults; four for children, and a volume of short stories. Her books for adults include the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, the Brighton Mysteries and the Detective Harbinder Kaur series, as well as The Frozen People and The Killing Time, the first two books in the Ali Dawson Mysteries.Elly's many accolades include the CWA Dagger in the Library, the Edgar Award, the Fingerprint Award for Crime Novel of the Year and the Theakston Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution Award, as well as the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year Award.Elly has two grown-up children and lives near Brighton with her archaeologist husband and their cat, Pip.

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