• The House at Sea's End

  • Ruth Galloway, Book 3
  • By: Elly Griffiths
  • Narrated by: Clare Corbett
  • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (58 ratings)

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The House at Sea's End

By: Elly Griffiths
Narrated by: Clare Corbett
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Ruth Galloway has just returned from maternity leave and is struggling to juggle work and motherhood. When a team from the University of North Norfolk, investigating coastal erosion, finds six bodies buried at the foot of the cliff, she is immediately put on the case. DCI Nelson is investigating, but Ruth finds this more hindrance than help – Nelson is the father of her daughter, Kate. Still, she remains professional and concentrates on the case at hand.

Forensic tests prove that the bodies are from Southern Europe, killed sixty years ago. Police Investigations unearth records of Project Lucifer, a wartime plan to stop a German invasion. A further discovery reveals that members of the Broughton Sea’s End Home Guard took a ‘blood oath’ to conceal some deadly wartime secret. The more information they uncover, the more elusive any explanation becomes. When a visiting German reporter is killed, Ruth and Nelson realise that someone is still alive who will kill to keep the secret of Broughton Sea’s End’s war years. Can they discover the truth in time to stop another murder?

©2011 Quercus Publishing PLC (P)2012 Quercus Editions Ltd

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Twists and turns in this excellent mystery

I have an interest in archaeology, so this mystery drew me in the riding with Excellent and Iration was perfect

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What’s going on?? I bought this

I have the whole series why did I have to buy again? It’s worth it

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i wish it weren't abridged

this does not seem to be available in unabridged format, what a loss! This author is great but much is lost in abridging.

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More Ruth Adventures — Fast-paced Narration

Yes, this is the excellent 3rd installment of Ruth Galloway. Audible has 2 options — this one, which is 5+ hrs by Clare Corbett, and another which is 10+ hrs by someone else. PICK THIS ONE. THIS IS NOT ABRIDGED. The extra 5 hrs in the other is all due to slow reading and unwieldy, overly emotional pausing by a narrator who sounds like a breathy adolescent.

By the 3rd volume of a mystery series, the author’s basic model and structure is familiar. So this didn’t grab me as innovative as the first 2. Nevertheless, I’ve come to really like Ruth and the collection of reappearing characters. I learn new aspects of history, and, when Ruth is neither soaked with rain or in danger of drowning, I think it would have been an engaging alternate life.

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