Ruth's First Christmas Tree: A Ruth Galloway Christmas Story (Ruth Galloway Series)

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Sounds too official for a relationship that has, so far, encompassed two weekends and an Aborigine repatriation ceremony. But the next day a woman in a blue dressing gown is found dead in a nearby ditch, identified as a recovering addict being treated at a nearby private hospital. When Ruth’s friend Cathbad sees a vision of the Virgin Mary, in a white gown and blue cloak, in the graveyard next to the cottage he is house-sitting, he takes it in his stride.

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No, Max must find a house smelling of pine needles and clean linen, with logs on the fire and gifts on the tree. Ruth sees Liam, Shona’s ex-lover, as well as Freya, a druid friend of Cathbad’s, and several graduate students. It is an eerie, solitary place, with a flat horizon – if you can get above the marsh reeds to see it. They look across the room to where Phil is laughing heartily with two arty types dressed entirely in black. absolutely love your excellent facts and story line, certainly has kept me hooked for all these years.Ruth is registering the fact that she didn’t know about this conference whereas Phil, who was not even involved in the henge dig, was evidently a guest of honour.

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She is so deep in thought that she hardly notices Cathbad and Kate placing the star on top of the tree. We’re taken full circle in book 11 as Nelson starts receiving threatening letters that echo those he received right back at the start of this series, in The Crossing Places. Nearby, Ruth realises the Night Hawks were more successful than they realised – but the booty is all tangled up with some old bones, most likely Bronze Age. A small sliver of oak, valuable because of the presence of a neatly cut square hole, clearly meant for the linchpin of a wheel.One of the many highlights of this series is its wonderful sense of location — from the desolate beaches to historic buildings and everything in between.

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Have to wait until August for The Last Remains in paperback (to match the rest of the series) I have absolutely loved reading them all and, like other readers, feel as if I know the characters so well.

People say the idea of putting up a Christmas tree originated in the nineteenth century,’ says Cathbad, selecting a golden Santa from the box, ‘but it’s far older than that. They were meant for the open air, they said, for the wind and the rain, part of the ebb and flow of the tide.