Griffiths

Elly Griffiths
Ruth Galloway series
The Crossing Places
The Janus Stone
The House at Sea's End
A Room Full of Bones
A Dying Fall
The Outcast Dead
The Ghost Fields
The Woman in Blue
The Chalk Pit

It surprised me, looking at this list, to see how many books there are in the series. I'm always waiting keenly for the next in this series. Dr Ruth is an academic archaeologist at a relatively minor university in the north-east of England. She is called in by her favourite policeman to advise on human remains. The books include lots of archaeology, lots of stories about ancient Britain, and some good murder mysteries. Apart from Ruth herself, my favourite character is the irritating Cathbad, a born-again Druid who gets about in a long cloak and insists that the child in the later books isn't Kate but Hecate.