Dr Ruth Galloway series

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Started this series last weekend (after someone mentioned them on here). I'm just about to finish book 2 and I'm totally hooked.

Thank you who ever made me research them. Loving them 👍🏼

I finished the series a few weeks ago, and absolutely loved them. I still feel a bit sad that I've finished them and still hope Elly Griffiths will add more in the future.

5he is an excellent middle-aged female character. Properly developed and fully realised. I love those books too.

I found I really liked the first, but the second wasn’t as good. Should I try number 3?

Finished #2 last night. Downloaded 3. Pity I've got to go to work.

Oh, I love Ellie Griffiths- and not just because we once had a lovely chat online after I spotted some clues to a niche shared interest in one of her books! I like her Harbinder Kaur character too. Not so keen on The Brighton Mysteries. But she has a very promising new character in her latest The Frozen People..

I love it when I find a new author with loads of books to go at!

Love love love Ruth Galloway series and have read them all . Enjoyed a few Harbinder Kaur , and whilst just finished The Frozen People , I don't think the main female character really got going ( can't even remember her name ) .

Another fan of Ruth Galloway here too. The stories are good, but the characters are so well rounded. They're well written and very funny. I think I'm on book 6 or 7, I'm trying to make them last

I like the Harbinder Kaur books too, but just don't get the Brighton Mysteries at all.

I like them too

I used to really like her but started to notice that many of them end up in some variation of race against the clock which spoiled them for me.

I have read the first three and have several sitting in the bookcase. I'm not much of a thriller reader so have to be in the mood.

I’ve read them all but found them a bit repetitive after a while.

I enjoyed them at first , but agree they became repetitive. And I could quite cheerfully have murdered Cathbad …..

Quite agree about Cathbad. How on earth is he involved in every storyline in some way.

Love love love this series.

Quite like the Harbinder ones though she’s a little humourless.

I'm reading the series now in order having dipped in and out over the past few years. I'm on Book 11 (I think) now, but like a pp I'd advise pacing yourself and reading other stuff in between, otherwise the similarities in books will drive you mad.

But Ruth is a wonderful heroine.

Come on people - don’t spoilt them for the OP with your critiques, she’s only just started reading them!

I love the Ruth Galloway series and am slightly grieving the fact that I've reached the end of the series. I feel like she was an actual friend 😁 Fallen in love with Norfolk too!
I like Harbinder, but not the Brighton ones.
Looking forward to starting the Frozen People.

I'm on #3 and will read a few other books after this one. You can only buy book 4 in a set on Kindle which includes, 4,5 and 6 for £10.99. I'll get that next after I've had a change of genre.

If you like Ruth, you might also like Anne Cleeves’ Jimmy Perez. Not even remotely the same, of course, but….

I was disappointed by The Frozen People. I think Jodi Taylor does it much better with both St Mary's and the Time Police series.

Totally agree with you.
I know it's the first in the series but I felt it never got going , I didn't connect with the character and felt we wasn't given much about her .
I will keep an open mind and read the second one though.

I've just read The Frozen People. I do agree that it took a while for the story to get going, and there were some plotlines that remained unresolved at the end, so I wonder whether they will be reopened and visited in the next one.

Having said that, it's off to a promising start. I like Ali Dawson and I'll be reading the second one when it's out.

I haven't read Jodi Taylor's series so can't compare how she does time travel. Maybe I should give them a go too.

I would start with the St Mary's series. The first one is "Just One Damned Thing After Another."
I love them.

Just started book #7 The Woman in Blue.
Spacing them out but always eager to read the next one.

Im noticing a pattern in plot too, but happy to just go with them. It's like a warm hug each time I open the book.