pickThis has got to be one of the best Ruth Galloway mysteries, yet. Have we reached the end? It feels like it, but I think that‘s OK. There‘s a murder to solve, of course, but, personally, I was more interested in the involvements of all of the characters that I have come to love. No spoilers, but that ending had me bawling. All is as it should be. And I will forever wonder what they are all doing now. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickWhen children are killed and the Jewish community of Cambridge is blamed, King Henry II sends for a doctor of death to investigate. Adelia is the best but she is a woman doctor in Medieval England and is under constant threat of the community thinking she‘s a witch and a killer wanting to keep their secrets.
Such an immersive story that brings forensics, restrictive gender roles, and religious tension to a nail biting whodunit mystery.
pickFebruary #bookspin #serieslove2024
January is off to a good start. Completed this months bookspin and checked off another book in a series I adore. Daisy and Hazel are off to Cambridge to celebrate the Christmas holidays and stumble upon two murders. They join forces with their friends the Junior Pinkertons to solve the case set at a fictional Oxford.
pickWe had bad storms all night (we're fine!), & maybe it's weird to say so, but this book paired well with the storms? It was just the right amount of intrigue, with relatively quick resolutions. I don't think the episodic nature of the book worked as well in this as the 1st in the series, which revolved around the church calendar. (Sidney is a vicar, after all.) But it worked. This one had the first *huge* difference between the books & the TV show.
1. Hard to choose, but I‘ll mention the tagged book, the 15th and final installment in Elly Griffiths‘ Ruth Galloway series. 2. I‘ve preordered The Curse of Penryth Hall, plus I‘m planning to read some holiday-themed cozies in December (by Donna Andrews, Anne Perry, M.C. Beaton) 3. Trope? Hmmm, one would be when the detective gets too close to the solution and becomes a target of the killer - adds a thriller element. @RaeLovesToRead
pickBuilders renovating a cafe find a bricked-up skeleton, recent enough to have a metal plate in its ankle and hence of interest to Nelson and his team. Ruth has problems of her own as the university wants to close down her dept.
The last in the series and it shows, as characters from earlier books pop up all over the place and there is a lot of reminiscing. The actual mystery was intriguing and suspenseful enough to keep me up way past my bedtime.
