Ruth's First Christmas Tree

Its place in Ruth Galloway

Ruth's First Christmas Tree is book 5 in the Ruth Galloway series. It follows A Room Full of Bones. It is followed by A Dying Fall. 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…