The Last Remains
- Published
- 1 January 2023
- Pages
- 325
- ISBN-13
- 9780063286733
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Last Remains (2023) was written and marketed as the conclusion to the main Ruth Galloway sequence, bringing her long, unresolved relationship with DCI Harry Nelson to a deliberate close after fifteen novels. It runs 325 pages.
Key facts about The Last Remains
The Last Remains is a novel by Elly Griffiths. Readers have had it since 2023. It runs to 325 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Last Remains. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780063286733 to find the main one.
The Last Remains is book 16 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
The Last Remains is book 16 in the Ruth Galloway series. It follows The Locked Room. 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 9780063286733
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781529409758
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780358726487