The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 10 Books Box Set by Elly Griffiths - The Dark Angel, A Room Full of Bones, The Outcast Dead, The Janus Stone, The Ghost Fields, The Crossing Places, A Dying Fall

Not quite up to the first two?

It's good, don't get me wrong, but it's formulaic and when everything unfolds at the end the villain gets the kind of verbal diarrhea we used time see in the old Bond films instead of just getting on with it. And it's always their undoing, isn't it? I've always wondered if real-life serial killers do this.

Otherwise, of course, it was a good read. On to the next one!

I really like this series. The plots are sufficiently interesting to keep me turning the pages without being overly mentally taxing, and the characters are three-dimensional: you like them and think they’re mostly decent people, but you don’t always approve of everything they do - which is mostly how you feel about the people you actually know. Ten books into the series, they all feel like friends.