The Ruth Galloway series has six books altogether in it. They include The Crossing Places, The Janus Stone, The House at Sea’s End, A Room Full of Bones, A Dying Fall, and The Outcast Dead. She also writes a Christmas story with Ruth Galloway as the main character as well as a book called, Ruth Galloway Omnibus: Dodencirkel and Offersteen which is two books in one about Ruth Galloway. The Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney celebrated the enigmatic Boa Island bilateral figure's similarity to the Roman deity Janus in his poem "January God". [7] [10] The Enniskillen-born poet Francis Harvey published a collection of poems called The Boa Island Janus in 1996. [11] A child comes up missing. When a child’s bones are found on a beach, the Detective Chief Inspector Harry Nelson asks Ruth Galloway for help to determine if these bones are the final remains of a missing little girl by the name of Lucy Downey. This little girl has been missing for ten years and since her disappearance, Detective Nelson has been receiving weird letters. These weird letters are about the little girl and about sacrifice and rituals. Elly Griffiths writing has such depth,and the way she portrays the spirituality of her characters brings us closer to understanding them.

DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters telling him to ‘go to the stone circle and rescue the innocent who is buried there’. He is shaken, not only because children are very much on his mind, with Michelle’s baby due to be born, but because a …

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The larger of the figures is the Boa Island bilateral figure. It is regarded as one of the most enigmatic and remarkable stone figures in Ireland. It is called a Janus-figure because it has two faces, reminding some of the Roman two-headed deity Janus, however, it is not a representation of Janus. It is thought to represent a Celtic deity and could represent a Celtic goddess as readily as a god, especially given the name of the island.

It's been only a few months since archaeologist Ruth Galloway found herself entangled in a missing persons case, barely escaping with her life. But when construction workers demolishing a large old house in Norwich uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway - minus its skull - Ruth is once again called upon to investigate. Is it a Roman-era ritual sacrifice, or is the killer closer at hand? WINNER OF THE 2016 CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY. The discovery of a child's skeleton lays bare terrible secret's from Norwich's past in the second gripping mystery for Dr Ruth Galloway. A must-read for fans of Val McDermid and Ann Cleeves. She is one of three Celtic war goddesses that included her sisters,MachaandMorrigan. Their mother was the goddess, Ernmass who was said to be one of the Tuatha Dé Danann. When carbon dating proves that the child’s bones predate the home and relate to a time when the house was privately owned, Ruth is drawn ever more deeply into the case. But as spring turns into summer it becomes clear that someone is trying hard to put her off the scent by frightening her to death… I am addicted to the Ruth gallaway books I just can’t get her last one the last remains a brilliant author thank you for giving me hours of reading pleasure Reply

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To find the Janus figure Boa Island which is located on Boa Island Road you can take the A32 North from Fermanagh Town until you reach the B82 which takes you onto Boa Island. The Cemetary at Caldragh is signposted on the left about 2 km down. Watch carefully the sign is very small and you will probably miss it the first time. You will need to rent a car to see this mysterious Island as no tour buses go there. The smaller figure is known as “the Lustyman” because it was found on the nearby island Lusty More was moved to the cemetery in 1939, but it may well be a female figure. It is this smaller figure that appears to have only one eye fully carved that has allowed historians to develop the theory that it represents the “divine hag” or Boa and like the sky-god Odin of the Norse was blind in the left eye. Held within the mysterious Caldragh Cemetery, which is said to be one of the “thin places”, stands the two curious figures that have caused scholars to scratch their heads for many years. As you enter the graveyard you will spot the Janus head slightly to the left. History of Boa Island The setting adds a lot to this series – Ruth’s isolated cottage looking out over the salt marshes of Norfolk provides plenty of room for spooky occurrences, and Griffiths gives a real feel for the brooding beauty of the place, and for some of the myths and superstitions attached to it. Indentation carved into the top of the bilateral figure, often used as a location for small mementos such as coins

The Night Hawks, a group of metal detectorists, are searching for buried treasure when they find a body on the beach in North Norfolk. At first Nelson thinks that the dead man might be an asylum seeker but he turns out to be a local boy, Jem Taylor, re … Waddell, John. The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland. Galway: Galway University Press, 1998. ISBN 978-1-8698-5739-4 Halloween is perfect time to set a crime novel, and as A Room Full of Bones opens we find Ruth attending a rather offbeat event at a museum in Kings Lynn. She’s there to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop. However, things take a sinister turn with the discovery of the museum curator’s body beside the casket. A second death with connections to the museum has both Ruth and Nelson on high alert, and as the investigation progresses, Ruth is about to find herself severely tested, in more ways than one…Boiled human bones have been found in Norwich’s web of underground tunnels. When Dr Ruth Galloway discovers they were recently buried, DCI Nelson has a murder enquiry on his hands. The boiling might have been just a medieval curiosity – now it suggests … A team of archaeologists, investigating coastal erosion on the north Norfolk coast, unearth six bodies buried at the foot of a cliff. How long have they been there? What could have happened to them? Forensics expert Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson are dra … Elly Griffiths currently has ten novels with six of them being the Ruth Galloway series, two more with Ruth Galloway as the main character, one written with other authors, and yet another one in a in Spanish with Ruth Galloway as the main character. Her newest book is The Outcast Dead which was published and released this year. Her book The Crossing Places received the Mary Higgins Clark award in 2011 and was also shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year.