A Dying Fall
- Published
- 1 January 2013
- Pages
- 390
- ISBN-13
- 9780857388865
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Dying Fall came out in 2013, book 5 of the series, continuing Ruth Galloway's slow-burn, unresolved relationship with the married DCI Harry Nelson alongside the book's own archaeological mystery. It runs 390 pages.
Key facts about A Dying Fall
A Dying Fall is a novel by Elly Griffiths. Readers have had it since 2013. It runs to 390 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of A Dying Fall. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780857388865 to find the main one.
A Dying Fall is book 6 of 16 in the Ruth Galloway series. The series has 16 published books. However, the series starts with The Crossing Places (2009).
Additionally, Elly Griffiths writes The Brighton Mysteries (Stephens & Mephisto), Harbinder Kaur and A Girl Called Justice, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our mystery, middle grade and historical mystery shelves. Meanwhile, The Case of the Christmas Card is the latest published Elly Griffiths book on file, from 8 October 2026.
About Elly Griffiths
Elly Griffiths is the pen name of British novelist Domenica de Rosa, who worked in publishing and wrote several novels under her own name before turning to crime fiction. See every Elly Griffiths book in order.
Its place in Ruth Galloway
A Dying Fall is book 6 in the Ruth Galloway series. It follows Ruth's First Christmas Tree. It is followed by The Outcast Dead. See the full Ruth Galloway reading order.
Dr. Ruth Galloway is a forensic archaeologist at the fictional University of North Norfolk, more comfortable with bones in a dig site than with people, whose expertise in ancient burials keeps drawing her into distinctly modern murder investigations. When bones surface on the bleak Saltmarsh coast in The Crossing Places (2009), DCI Harry Nelson calls her in to date them — and finds himself relying on her again and again as the marshland around Norfolk's Iron Age past keeps yielding contemporary bodies. Elly…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780857388865