Ruth Galloway · Book 10

The Chalk Pit

by Elly Griffiths

Published
1 January 2017
Pages
360
ISBN-13
9780544750319
Type
novel

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Cover of The Chalk Pit

About this book

The Chalk Pit is the ninth entry in the series, published in 2017, continuing the rich supporting cast Elly Griffiths built around Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson. It runs 360 pages.

Its place in Ruth Galloway

The Chalk Pit is book 10 in the Ruth Galloway series. It follows The Woman in Blue. It is followed by The Dark Angel. 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…

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