Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway novels (*possible spoilers)

Really enjoyed The Last Remains. Though IRL none of them would be on the case as they are all partial. That did irritate be a bit.

Me too. I wouldn't normally pay that much for a book but I pre-ordered when I came to the end of the rest of the series last year.

No spoilers but just to say I enjoyed the ending .

Just finished the last remains
Won't spoil it but what a cliff hanger

Here is another thread I have just found about Elly and Ruth:
www.mumsnet.com/talk/what_were_reading/4728624-new-ruth-galloway-a-week-today

My copy of The Last Remains arrived today. I don't usually get new books so quickly, but had a voucher to spend and couldn't resist ordering it. I'm just about to finish Noel Fitzpatrick's latest, Beyond Supervet - very good, interesting, thought-provoking and moving - and then I'll start it.

I feel quite reluctant to start it, it being the last one.

I’ve requested The Last Remains from my local library, currently 104th in the queue, might get to read it before it comes out in paperback!

I bought a paperback version of the Locked Room for £2.50 from the Works over xmas as I read a library version before and fancied a re-read- anyway, it has the first 2 chapters of the Last Remains at the back! So I was very excited to get a glimpse into the final book, even if it didn't reveal more than the synopsis below! Exciting!

Following on from The Last Remains this coming February in hardback, the paperback edition will be published in August 2023.

I love Ruth Galloway and having never been to Norfolk I booked a trip this year just so I could visit some of those places!
I have tried a few of Elly Griffiths other books and couldn't get into them.

<waves to Bridget (Skap here)>

News from Elly:
It’s been a busy month finishing up my first draft of The Last Remains and watching The Locked Room fly in paperback. We’ve just heard that it’s in the Sunday Times bestseller charts for a third week which is wonderful news – thanks so much to everyone who has bought a copy.
When I announced that The Last Remains will be the ending of the Dr Ruth Galloway series (for now) I said that there would still be lots of exciting things to come, more Ruth stories to be told and a year of Ruth celebrations. I’m pleased to share that this is all going to kick off with a special edition of The Crossing Places which is coming on 20th October.
We’ve got a beautiful new cover and some brand new, never-before-seen content exclusive to this edition (to be announced at a later date).
The folks at Jarrold in Norwich have supported me for such a long time, so it was only right to announce this edition with a special competition. Anyone who pre-orders a copy of The Crossing Places from Jarrold can upload proof of their purchase to be in with a chance of winning an exclusive early copy of The Last Remains and two tickets to the launch event with Jarrold on 2nd February 2023.
That means you’ll get to read the ending for Ruth and Nelson and Cathbad before anyone else!
All my best,
Elly

Another writer who sets his work in East Anglia is Jim Kelly - there is a series featuring a journalist starting with The Water Clock, another featuring a police detective duo and 3 (at least) in a historical series (set WWII) - have read at least 4 or 5 books in both the first two series but I'm not totally up to date, and still have to start the third series.

Maybe when I've finished The Locked Room - just started this morning. It's only February and most characters don't know what's coming yet. Ruth is helping to clear out her childhood home as, a few years after her mum's death, her dad has just remarried and there are renovation/redecoration plans afoot. And there is a school reunion, with Ruth learning how others saw her and this was different from what she thought. Which is strange as I've just been reading Bleeding Heart Yard which also features a reunion.

Gosh me too, grew up nearby grimes graves and visited so many times, went back for the first time in years, last month and took our dd and she loved it.
@QuebecBagnet sounds good will have to look for it

I’ve just started reading Broadland which is another detective series set in Norfolk,seems really good so far.

Just about to start reading the Locked Room! (I know I'm behind.)

Sounds very predictable and getting a bit full now. Obviously she'll get him off..

Love this. Loved Grimes graves when we visited it was fab

Sea henge is actually in the museum in kings Lynn they removed the wooden posts and recreated them - I’ve seen it

Absolutely not. There's an option to give feedback or to say you won't be giving feedback and explain. I think that's better than not writing the reviews. You can do that on Netgalley and then choose which books you share your opinions of elsewhere. Your social media profile is important, and some publishers or the publicists for some books will just want people working in the book trade and making buying decisions, professional reviewers etc. You can also give quite brief feedback which I'm thinking of doing - plenty of two liners on site, and then I can still write proper reviews later.

Good luck.

Thanks @elkiedee . I use a kindle anyway - I have kindle unlimited so I get a lot of series for my £7.99 per month anyway - but obviously newer or better known titles I have to pay for- particularly when I've reached the end of a series and put an advanced order in on Amazon - think I paid about £12.99 for a new title recently.

Net galley is certainly worth a look - I would probably also be behind on reviews though. Can I ask if you feel that you need to give a positive review - even if something is awful and you don't finish it?

@shinynewapple22

There are quite a lot of ways to get review copies of books. I have a lot of reviews still to write and even more books that I requested intending to read and review them.

The easiest way if you are happy to read the books on a Kindle or even a Kindle app on your smartphone or computer is Netgalley - www.netgalley.co.uk. Quite a lot of publishers - large, small, in between, for example Penguin, Virago, Oneworld, Canongate, and Quercus who publish nearly all of Elly Griffiths' work, list books available for review and you ask. I've had lots of requests declined because I'm rubbish at actually writing and posting proper reviews and I haven't really progressed my blog beyond setting up a page with a title!

But even so I still get a huge number of books including a lot of the Ruth Galloway books (but not the most recent one), most of her Brighton series, again, not the most recent one, and all 3 Harbinder Kaur series. If I'm declined, I can add the others to various wishlists I keep, and look out for Kindle daily deals, comb library catalogues etc. Librarians and booksellers can use Netgalley as well as professional journalists and reviewers and total amateurs.

You can set up your own blog or just post on all the sites. If you manage to get any books and review them, I'd love to know - please come back and pm me if you like, and I'll read your reviews and do likes (only if I like your reviews), comment if I have something friendly to say, etc. That could help you build up a profile and get better books. Good luck.

@elkiedee how do you get advance review copies of books please ?

@TheWheeledAvenger

Have you tried Elly Griffiths' Brighton series? Also known as Stephens & Mephisto or Magic Men, but those series titles make more sense for the first 4 books, less so than #5 and #6 (trying to avoid spoilers). First book is The Zig Zag Girl and they regularly come up on Kindle deals.

I'm reading an advance review copy (electronic) of Bleeding Heart Yard, which features Harbinder Kaur. There are no references to Mumsnet or any similar website, but I can totally imagine many of the characters in this one, or people who know them, posting on MN. Maybe in the AIBU threads.

I'm not sure I can imagine Ruth on MN, I'm wondering about the other characters.....

I've been waiting ages for a library copy - one actually came through in the spring but I had to cancel it because I couldn't read print books at that point due to cataracts - something which I thought only happened to people 20-30 years older than me - I'm only middle aged! I've now had surgery and can read again.

I spotted and snapped up the book, checked that it has page numbers and then cancelled my library reservation(s).

I do regularly buy 99p deals that I've read from the library, or that I've borrowed in paper or digital form, because I am very short of shelf space, floor space and any other way of keeping books, and then I can pass on the dead tree versions.

Locked room is 99p on kindle daily deals today! Not sure if anyone is still waiting to read it, but I'm thinking about buying it for future comfort re-reads even though I've already read a library copy