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Ruth Galloway Books in Order

Ruth Galloway by Elly Griffiths contains 17 books, published between 2009 and 2023. The first book is The Crossing Places (2009) and the newest is The Last Remains (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
17
Published
2009–2023
Confirmed
17 of 17 titles
Pages on record
3,327 in 9 of 17 books
Reading time
55–83 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,327 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 17 titles with a page count on record.

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Ruth Galloway is a crime series by Elly Griffiths built around a woman working as a forensic archaeologist, whose findings feed police murder investigations. The Crossing Places (2009) opens the sequence, and 17 books follow through The Last Remains (2023). The series is currently dormant.

How many Ruth Galloway books are there?

Ruth Galloway has 17 books, released between 2009 and 2023.

Ruth Galloway Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 17 Ruth Galloway books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths, book 1 of the Ruth Galloway series (2009)
  2. Cover of The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths, book 2 of the Ruth Galloway series (2010)
  3. Cover of The House at Sea's End by Elly Griffiths, book 3 of the Ruth Galloway series (2011)
  4. Cover of A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths, book 4 of the Ruth Galloway series (2011)
  5. Cover of A Dying Fall / Tomb of the Raven King by Elly Griffiths, book 6 of the Ruth Galloway series (2012)
  6. Cover of The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths, book 7 of the Ruth Galloway series (2014)
  7. Cover of The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths, book 8 of the Ruth Galloway series (2015)
  8. Cover of The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths, book 9 of the Ruth Galloway series (2016)
  9. Cover of The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths, book 10 of the Ruth Galloway series (2017)
  10. Cover of The Dark Angel by Elly Griffiths, book 11 of the Ruth Galloway series (2018)
  11. Cover of The Locked Room by Elly Griffiths, book 16 of the Ruth Galloway series (2022)
  1. 1
    The Crossing Places2009 · confirmed 3/4
    2009–
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  2. 2
    The Janus Stone2010 · confirmed 3/4
    2010–
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  3. 3
    The House at Sea's End2011 · 390 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2011390
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  4. 4
    A Room Full of Bones2011 · confirmed 3/4
    2011–
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  5. 5
    Ruth's First Christmas Tree2012 · confirmed 4/4
    2012–
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  6. 6
    A Dying Fall / Tomb of the Raven King2012 · 400 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2012400
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  7. 7
    The Outcast Dead2014 · 384 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2014384
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  8. 8
    The Ghost Fields2015 · 370 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2015370
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  9. 9
    The Woman in Blue2016 · 358 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2016358
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  10. 10
    The Chalk Pit2017 · 360 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2017360
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  11. 11
    The Dark Angel2018 · 345 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2018345
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  12. 12
    The Stone Circle2019 · confirmed 4/4
    2019–
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  13. 13
    The Lantern Men2020 · 368 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2020368
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  14. 14
    The Man in Black2020 · confirmed 4/4
    2020–
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  15. 15
    The Night Hawks2021 · confirmed 4/4
    2021–
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  16. 16
    The Locked Room2022 · 352 pages · confirmed 4/4
    2022352
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  17. 17
    The Last Remains2023 · confirmed 3/4
    2023–
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Ruth Galloway Books in Chronological Order

By publication date, the Ruth Galloway books run from The Crossing Places (2009) to The Last Remains (2023), the sequence in the table above. No separate story order is recorded for Ruth Galloway in the book listings this catalogue merges, so publication order is the only order on record.

Do you have to read Ruth Galloway books in order?

You should read the Ruth Galloway books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Ruth Galloway book also stands alone.

What order should you read Ruth Galloway books in?

Read them in publication order, starting with The Crossing Places (2009), the earliest published title. After it come The Janus Stone (2010), The House at Sea's End (2011), A Room Full of Bones (2011) and Ruth's First Christmas Tree (2012); the numbered table above continues from there.

What is the newest Ruth Galloway book?

The Last Remains (2023) is the newest Ruth Galloway book released so far.

Is there a new Ruth Galloway book coming?

No next Ruth Galloway book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Ruth Galloway at a glance

Paused
No new Ruth Galloway title has appeared for 3 years. The last was published in 2023.
Release pace
Ruth Galloway books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,327 pages across the 9 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 368 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Ruth Galloway books, 11 of 17, were published in the 2010s.
Corroboration
11 of the 17 titles appear in all four independent book listings, and every one of them in at least three.

What the Ruth Galloway books are about

11 of the 17 Ruth Galloway books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: mystery & detective is tagged on 6 of 11. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Elly Griffiths

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.

Other series by Elly Griffiths

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.