The Ghost Fields

The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, Book 7

By: Elly Griffiths

Narrated by: Clare Corbett

Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

Norfolk is experiencing a July heat wave when a construction crew unearths a macabre discovery - a buried World War II plane with the pilot still inside. Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway quickly realizes that the skeleton couldn't possibly be the pilot, and DNA tests identify the man as Fred Blackstock, a local aristocrat who had been reported dead at sea.

When the remaining members of the Blackstock family learn about the discovery, they seem strangely frightened by the news. Events are further complicated by a TV company that wants to make a film about Norfolk's deserted air force bases, the so-called Ghost Fields, which have been partially converted into a pig farm run by one of the younger Blackstocks. As production begins, Ruth notices a mysterious man lurking close to the Blackstocks' family home. Then human bones are found on the family's pig farm.

Can the team outrace a looming flood to find a killer?

©2015 Elly Griffiths (P)2015 Quercus Editions Ltd

Love Ruth series

Always learn something and enjoy characters and mystery. This reader is so enjoyable. Story keeps getting better

another great Ruth Galloway story

I loved this story. I'm a huge fan girl of the Elly Griffiths/Ruth Galloway series. I adore the main characters and I really pay as much attention, if not more, to what is going on in their lives, the crime solving comes second to me, although that's awesome too. This story had a new narrator from all of the othersbive listened to. I read some harsh criticism of her, but I think she did a fabulous job and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

great context

Enjoyed the setting both historic and environmental for this installment of the Ruth Galloway saga. The mystery isn't really very deep or difficult to unravel, but the telling of it is most entertaining. I love the on-going mostly unfulfilled romance that has so much sadness shadowing it--how can this ever be resolved? Narration mostly very good except sometimes 'voices' are too rough and don't seem to fit the character of the personality; Nelson's voice especially too tough and Frank's seems too young and immature.

Ruth's Adventures Just Get Better!!

Ruth struggles with single parenting and still manages to solve murders!! Believable and entertaining!!! Harry remains as oblivious as ever.

Did not disappoint! - Loved it!

I have enjoyed all the Ruth Galloway stories and this one was excellent! As always the narration is exceptional and very enjoyable. I hope their are still more in this series to come. Thank you Ms. Griffith for another job well done!

The ghost fields

I have thoroughly enjoyed all of the books in this series- the characters, the settings, and the plots. This is no exception.

Voice effects don’t help a weak story

First storyline that I felt was a little slapped together.
The voice effects of fading and laying static over phone calls and radio background was just very distracting and didn’t do anything to enhance the listening experience

Another winner!

Always difficult for me to put down Elly's mysteries. More Ruth Galloway mysteries for us please!

Elly does it yet again!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes I would recommend this audiobook to a friend. The writer Domenica de Rosa, writing as Elly Griffiths pens one great book after another. I have purchased and read all of them and am just now starting on her newest series, The Zig Zag girl. I have not doubt this series will not disappoint either. History, archeology, a little bit of romance, or maybe I should say love, no graphic sordid sex scenes, good mystery and human interactions.

What did you like best about this story?

In this series, Elly weaves story lines based on archeological/ historical events. Two of my interests. She does not preach using these lines of a story though. Informative Her characters, come alive. You can imagine each of them living their lives long after you finish the latest story. Louise Penny's characters and a few other authors characters are people I think about when not in the book as well, even though I know they are fictional. That to me is a mark of a good book.

The character development, I would say is what I liked best about this book and her others as well. They become old friends you want to visit in the next book in the series.

Which scene was your favorite?

The scene when Frank shows Ruth the mural on the wall of what is now a pig farm barn, but was a US air force building during WWII. That mural depicts one air man or really the Army Air Core at that time still, I would think, view of the war, and Ruth's thoughts bring it to life.

You wonder about the men and woman who did leave their homes to go to a foreign soil to in this case was probably going to end in their death, but they fought because they felt they had to.

My own father was in the Army Air Core during WWII and overseas, although I was not yet alive. He never liked to speak of the war, and this book brings it to life in a good way.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Both at different times. Elly always brings the book to a stunning climax the reader of her books, knows will come. Then she leaves you with a little personal tidbit about a characters life line and maybe what is to come! In this ending Ruth comes to an important decision, the reader really can't predict which way she will go until you read it.

Her familial interactions make you think as well.

Any additional comments?

Just that the narrator is wonderful too. Easy to listen too, great diction, good pace etc. Some books and authors are great, but the narration ruins it, not in this case.

My favorite Ruth!

Somewhere along the line, ma Griffiths seems to have made a mental link of series heroine Ruth Galloway and perennial comedienne champ Dawn French. The result is a perfection in paradigm shift. So sad this came rather later in the collection, but still much appreciated as one visualizes RG in the variously tragicomic, life threatening, and strictly dramatic events depicted ( The Duck). I cannot understand the numerous negative reviews of narrator Clare Corbett, not, that is, in light of the newly crystallized persona for Ruth. My only criticism of Corbett's range is male depiction- uneven and somewhat weak- and especially regarding American male voices- perfectly awful. Poor Frank sounds always as though he were munching on a pair of wool socks. Otherwise, lovely- especially nice w/ Kate; children's voices can be career ending.