Review: A Stocking Stuffer for Ruth Galloway Fans
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 3, 2012
This short story (the equivalent of around 25 pages) about Ruth Galloway is for fans only. There is only the tiniest mystery, and the rest is an account of Ruth getting ready for Christmas.That's not to say that fans won't enjoy catching up with Ruth between mysteries. Most of the elements we've seen in all of the Elly Griffiths mysteries appear here -- Ruth is reluctant to socialize, but allows herself to be railroaded into attending a party. Ruth finds that once again she has been left behind when it comes to office politics at the university where she is an archaeology professor. All the regular characters make an appearance and are introduced for those readers new to the series. There's even the obligatory (but no less exciting for that) scene in which Ruth is threatened by nature and the unforgiving geography of her isolated cottage on the coast.It's just a taste to keep us going until the next full-length Ruth Galloway mystery arrives, A Dying Fall due in March 2013.