4. A Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths

#5 Ruth Galloway

listened on Audible
narrated by Clare Corbett
Unabridged audio (10:26)
2013
391 pgs.
Adult Mystery series
Finished 1/15/2021
Goodreads rating: 4.04 - 14,374 ratings
My rating: 4.5
Setting: contemporary Blackpool, England

First line/s: "At first he isn't even scared."

What I posted on Goodreads:  A swiftly-moving story in a truly interesting series.  This one takes place in the northeast coastal community of Blackpool and adds a liberal dose of Cathbad and Kate.
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My comments: In this episode, Ruth takes Kate and, accompanied by Cathbad, spend a couple of summer weeks in Blackpool looking for clues about the found-but-missing bones of what may possibly be King Arthur.  At the same time, Nelson and his wife are spending their summer holiday in the same place, the town where they both grew up.  This is the first tie that I remember getting into the mind of Cathbad, and he becomes a very integral part of thie story.  Starting with the murder of Kate's college friend, Dan, in his burning house, and meeting various members of the history department in the local college, the story is interesting and moves swiftly.

Goodreads synopsis:  Ruth’s old friend Dan Golding dies in a house fire. But before he died Dan wrote to Ruth telling her that he had made a ground-breaking archaeological discovery. Could this find be linked to his death and who are the sinister neo-Nazi group who were threatening Dan? Ruth makes the trip to Blackpool to investigate, wary of encroaching on DCI Harry Nelson’s home ground. Soon Ruth is embroiled in a mystery that involves the Pendle Witches, King Arthur and – scariest of all – Nelson’s mother.
          There are forces at work in the town that that threaten all that Ruth holds dear. But, in the final showdown on Blackpool Pleasure Beach, it is Cathbad who faces the greatest danger of all.