Dr Ruth Galloway

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I’m just about to start the last book in this series and I’m bereft at finishing them, alongside joyful at reading it! I will wait until the weekend for a fully wallowing read.

Any recommendations for similar books? I just fell in love with them. They are wonderful.

How many are there in total?
I read the first 10 and stopped because it got a bit samey, but im looking for something so might go back to Dr Ruth.

I really miss Dr Ruth.

Don't bother with Elly's new series - time travel rubbish!!

Agree but I did like the Brighton series.

I had a moment of horror then, thinking I had written something terrible on a post and was being publicly called out!

16. The only one that I found lacking was The Dark Angel, which sent Ruth to Italy but not enough archeology for me. The last few have been really good, very tense.

If you are like your name sake, I can’t imagine you doing anything terrible.

I’ll try the Brighton series next, thanks.

Ruth Galloway is next on my list. Have recently read the Simon Serrailer books by Susan Hill and the Tom Raven books by MS Morris and really enjoyed both series. Ruth Galloway comes up as a suggestion if I say I like the these two series.

I am enjoying Ruth Downie's Medicus series, she has a very similar witty humour. They are set in Roman Britain.

Elly Griffiths's Harbinder Kaur series is good bu I didn't get the Brighton series at all. The new one looks too daft.

I really liked The Frozen People (her new time travel book), but then I enjoy sci fi. It's probably not for everyone but it's very well researched and written.

I've enjoyed the Ruth Galloway books, the Brighton books, the Harbinder Kaur & friends ones and The Frozen People. And a collection of short stories. I've also read the first in her Justice Jones series for younger readers, which anyone who enjoys the Murder Most Unladylike series might like. I still have 3 Justice Jones books and 2 of Elly Griffiths' early books published under her real name, Domenica de Rosa, before she broke through and became better known with the Ruth Galloway series (which I think became really successful/popular a few books in).

I read my last Ruth Galloway book lying on my sunbed in Italy in August. I cried.

I started them in February and just ploughed through them - loved them all so much.

I downloaded a sample of the time travel one on my kindle and just thought it was a bit far fetched and I couldn't carry on.

I might try the Brighton ones.

I’m about 8 into these and really enjoying. I read the time travel ones first and really enjoyed those too actually 🤣

I loved the RG series (although they are a bit samey and also ridiculous on reflection, hoe many times can you be in that much peril?!) But I really enjoyed getting to know the characters and Norfolk etc.

The Brighton series just didn't click for me but I will try the HB ones

I enjoyed them but they did get very repetitive. I don’t know how Cathbad is involved in almost every case some how.

I’ve recently started the Rev. Merrily Watkins series, and it’s reminding me a bit of the Dr Ruth books. It’s totally different really (C of E vicar and exorcist) but a similar feel.

I love the Ruth Galloway books but as a nurse, I get really annoyed by the author’s medical inaccuracies. Iliac crest on the skull anyone? 🙄

Nor me, but I am glad he was, he was an interesting person based on an Irish Druid.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cathbad

I was surprised it had migrated so far from the Pelvis 😂 Errors aside, I still love the characters and stories.

Oh thank you, I will investigate those.

I loved these too!
Read the Brighton and HB ones after.
I just finished the Jane Casey Maeve Kerrigan series. A bit more ‘serious’ but enjoyable.
I tried Simon Serralier series, but only read one.
Shetland? Vera?
Kate Ellis gets mentioned but I’ve not tried.

I really enjoyed the Ruth Galloway books. I’d recommend the ‘alphabet’ books by Sue Grafton. The main character is called Kinsey Millhone and she’s a great character there are 25 books in the series the author died before she did Z. The first one is called A for Alibi.

I just started the last one as well! I've really enjoyed them.

The Harbinder Kaur books are brilliant - I preferred them to the Ruth Galloway books. I also really liked the time travel book (but I love time travel/science fiction anyway). I've read the first couple of Brighton books, but I'm not that keen. They just don't grip me like the Harbinder Kaur books or Ruth Galloway.

I am on book 9 of the Ruth Galloway books which were recommended to me here after I was bereft at finishing all the Jane Casey Maeve Kerrigan books. I enjoy crime fiction with a recurring cast. I have also enjoyed Clare Mackintosh’s DI Ffion Morgan books and Robert Rinder’s crime books about junior barrister Adam Green.

I have enjoyed them but, as another PP said, they can be a bit repetitive.

The fact that in many of them she always seems to be involved in a perilous situation , while there is a Keystone Kop race to save her, did start to grate for me.