Just in time for the holidays, a FREE e-short featuring everyone’s favorite archaeologist-turned-detective, Ruth Galloway. 

It is three days before Christmas and a bitter wind is blowing across Norfolk.  

Until her daughter was born,  Ruth Galloway didn’t do Christmas, but now that Kate is a year old, she wants it to be special. 

She must get a tree, shop for food, clean the house, buy presents, including one for her new boyfriend—who she isn’t even sure is her boyfriend—and remember to get the turkey out of the freezer.

But time is rushing by and the best-laid plans don’t always work out …

Find out how Ruth makes out in RUTH’S FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE, available for download to your e-reader FREE of charge this holiday season.

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It’s summer, the beaches are warm, the pool beckons, the Aboriginal skulls are causing a widespread epidemic…

At least, in Elly Griffiths latest Ruth Galloway mystery, A ROOM FULL OF BONES, they are.

On Halloween night, Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop. But upon arriving she finds the museum’s curator lying dead beside the coffin. It is only a matter of time before she and Detective Inspector Nelson cross paths once more, as he is called in to investigate.

Together they discover that before the curator’s death the museum’s owner, Lord Smith, had received threatening letters demanding that he hand over the museum’s collection of Aborigine skulls. When he finds a dead snake in his stable yard, he’s convinced it’s an evil portent. 

Following another senseless death, Ruth and Nelson become further embroiled in the case. But as Ruth’s close friends become involved, where will her loyalties lie? She and Nelson must discover how Aborigine skulls and drug smuggling may hold the answer to these deaths and their own survival in the latest installment of this “must-read” series (Associated Press).

Monday excerpt time!

Acclaimed author Elly Griffiths reintroduces us to Ruth Galloway in The Janus Stone, the follow-up to The Crossing Places. For a new excerpt, click the image above.

About the book:

It’s been only a few months since archaeologist Ruth Galloway found herself entangled in a missing persons case, barely escaping with her life. But when construction workers demolishing a large old house in Norwich uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway—minus its skull—Ruth is once again called upon to investigate. Is it a Roman-era ritual sacrifice, or is the killer closer at hand?
Ruth and Detective Harry Nelson would like to find out—and fast. When they realize the house was once a children’s home, they track down the Catholic priest who served as its operator. Father Hennessey reports that two children did go missing from the home forty years before—a boy and a girl. They were never found. When carbon dating proves that the child’s bones predate the home and relate to a time when the house was privately owned, Ruth is drawn ever more deeply into the case. But as spring turns into summer it becomes clear that someone is trying very hard to put her off the trail by frightening her, and her unborn child, half to death.

The Janus Stone is a riveting follow-up to Griffiths’s acclaimed The Crossing Places.