Review: A Dying Fall

#5 in the Ruth Galloway Series

What a oddball to kick this one off with!  A skeleton is dug up and the bones moved to storage, and the archaeologist doing the excavation mysteriously dies in a house fire. And Ruth is called in to take a look at the bones, only to discover something very, very interesting about them.

And so on, with all the familiar “mood” of the other books in the series (dark and brooding), plus a change of scenery for all of the characters—Ruth, Cathbad, Nelson, and even Nelson’s long-suffering wife.

I’ll probably not write unique reviews of the rest of the series, unless something stands out. In all of them I very much enjoy the historical detail, the personal relationships, and the ongoing character growth. So far. The actual mystery I enjoy too, but the perp’s motives don’t always make a lot of sense.