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# The Lantern Men: Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 12 (The Mysteries)

**Brand:** elly griffiths
**Price:** € 46.16
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- **What is this?** The Lantern Men: Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 12 (The Mysteries) by elly griffiths
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## Customer Reviews

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    All change for forensic archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway & the gang in a terrific twelfth instalment!
  

*by R***D on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 February 2020*

Two years on from the events of The Stone Circle and life has moved on not only for forensic archaeologist, Dr Ruth Galloway, but for all of the recurring cast in Elly Griffiths’ latest instalment of a series that mixes archaeology, murder and characters readers have come to care about.  In an instalment where the mystery element is tightly plotted and a combination of local myth and contemporary serious crime, the novel excels with a solid police procedural full of accessible archaeology detail, local folklore and credible character motivations.In a bid to get over her complicated relationship with DCI Harry Nelson of King’s Lynn CID and progress her career, forensic archaeologist, Dr Ruth Galloway, has left her beloved cottage on the Saltmarsh behind and with it the University of North Norfolk.  Swapping the life that she was so content with for the dreaming spires of Cambridge and living with American historian, Dr Frank Barker, she is adjusting to teaching at St Jude’s College, having a partner and parenting her rapidly maturing nine-year-old daughter, Kate, with Nelson, now an hour away in North Norfolk.  Meanwhile fifty year old DCI Harry Nelson is raising what he hopes will be his fourth and final child, two and a half year old George, after wife Michelle’s unexpected arrival, not that this does anything to lessen his silent and irrational fury at Ruth cohabiting with smarmy Frank.When DCI Nelson hears the news that Ivor March has been found guilty of murdering two young women whose bodies were buried in the garden of his girlfriend it is small compensation given he is convinced that two other missing girls have died at March’s hands.  When Nelson visits March in prison and questions him about Nicola Ferris and Jenny McGuire, both of whom he met through the evening classes that he ran, March - rather surprisingly - says that he is willing to disclose their whereabouts but only if Dr Ruth Galloway will excavate, leaving Nelson highly suspicious.  The opportunity to bring closure to two grieving families and the lure of working on another case sees Ruth agree, only for the location to give up more than expected...As the team look into the goings-on at a writers and artists retreat of which Ivor March was a part of they discover a local myth about the lights of the so called Lantern Men leading the lost to their deaths and March and his ‘spiritual brothers’ real life interpretation, supposedly without the dark twist.  Nelson thinks otherwise and sets about investigating the individuals involved, only for the murder of young female cyclist fitting March’s chosen profile in a remote area of marshland to present the team with a fresh enquiry.. but it is a copycat killing or does it prove Ivor Marsh’s innocence?Whilst DI Dave Clough is heading up his own team in Cambridgeshire, DI Judy Johnson, ambitious DS Tanya Fuller and ‘Super’ Jo Archer remain and are joined in CID by DC Tony Zhang.  Together with the link to local legends, the mystery entails several complexities which make it both satisfying and involving.  As usual there is a strong sense of place with the proximity to the Norfolk coast and the fens.  Full of the Griffiths’ usual wit, situational comedy moments and the everyday realities of life, the plot weaves in an array of connections, from Ruth having just attended a writing retreat at Ivor March’s ex-wife’s venue to part-time druid Cathbad’s daughter, Maddie, reporting on the case for the local newspaper.My favourite returning crime fiction series without a doubt and one that is best served by reading in order for the continuing wider storylines and character development.

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    disappointing
  

*by S***S on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 February 2020*

I've read all of Elly Griffiths books and waited for this so was deeply disappointed from the start as the writing style seems more simplistic than ever and the coincidences and clichés abound. I don't know if she churned this out too quickly but it doesn't enthral as others in the series did and the characters were less developed which ruined it for me. Come on Elly you can do much better than this.

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    Flogging a dead horse.
  

*by C***8 on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 February 2020*

So disappointing.Painfully thin story line.Desperate padding .....restating the same information as though the reader is amnesiac.I used to await the next Ruth Galloway novel with such enthusiasm that I own them in hardback. This will be recycled straight to Oxfam where I hope it will find a happier home.

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