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The Woman in Blue
- The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, Book 8
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
The murder of women priests in the shrine town of Walsingham sucks Dr. Ruth Galloway into an unholy investigation.
Ruth's friend, Cathbad, is housesitting in Walsingham, a Norfolk village famous as a centre for pilgrimages to the Virgin Mary. One night, Cathbad sees a strange vision in the graveyard beside the cottage: a young woman dressed in blue. Cathbad thinks that he may have seen the Madonna herself, but the next morning the woman's body, dressed in a white nightdress and blue dressing gown, is found in a ditch outside Walsingham.
DCI Nelson and his team are called in and establish that the dead woman was a recovering addict being treated at a nearby private hospital. Ruth, a devout atheist, has managed to avoid Walsingham during her 17 years in Norfolk. But then an old university friend, Hilary Smithson, asks to meet her in the village, and Ruth is amazed to discover that her friend is now a priest.
Hilary has been receiving vitriolic anonymous letters targeting women priests - letters containing references to local archaeology and a striking phrase about a woman 'clad in blue, weeping for the world'. Then another woman is murdered - a priest. As Walsingham prepares for its annual Easter reenactment of the Crucifixion, the race is on to unmask the killer before he strikes again....
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- Andrea Edan
- 03-04-17
Too much religious claptrap
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Only if the friend had an interest in Christianity
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
It may have been interesting to someone who has an interest in historic religious and pagan festivals and the goings on in the church.
What about Jane McDowell’s performance did you like?
A very good performance bringing the characters to life.
Was The Woman in Blue worth the listening time?
Very average. Didn't have difficulty listening to the end but wouldn't have minded stopping.
Any additional comments?
I find the personal relationships between the various characters quite tedious and somehow not contributing much to the story.
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- Nicole Glassey
- 24-07-20
narrator poor
lip smacking and noisy swallowing narration is horrible to listen to and very off putting
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- Mike Williams
- 23-02-23
Religion and murder
Well read. Jumps about between characters. Narrative current. Interesting about walsingham and christian history , thought, and characters past experience and modern thinking.
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- J
- 12-04-17
Combining ancient history with a police drama
Despite the grim murder it was a pleasant story about an academic who assists the police and thereby solves the case.
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- Kindle Customer
- 16-07-20
Great listen
I enjoyed this story because it tied up a couple of plot lines from the previous book. Another interesting crime to be sold.
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- JRH
- 12-08-21
Excellent!
A well read story containing thoughtfulness, mystery, humanity and compassion. Interesting , varied and believable characters plus a good, rounded end made this excellent tale very satisfying to listen to.
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- Mary Carnegie
- 04-02-17
Walsingham sullied, but not for long
A friend recommended this book, knowing I'd been on retreat/pilgrimage to Walsingham. It's interesting to imagine a psychiatric clinic called, of course, "The Sanctuary" nearby, and the idea of arranging a conference for female vicars wanting to prepare for episcopacy there is bound to add an extra factor. Walsingham is the place where Anglicans desperately try to be more Catholic than Torquemada! (You can be sure anyone dressed like a traditional Catholic priest isn't a priest at all, but an Anglican!)
Ruth has to modify some of her bigotry against people of faith, and restrain her knee-jerk antipathy, fortunately - intolerance is unlovely - but she does manage to adjust. She shows an amazing lack of knowledge of the history of religion in Southern England, considering her professional specialty of forensic archaeology, and confuses Anglicans and Protestants, in spite of her parents' happy-clappiness.
Although most pilgrims are just the ordinary diverse multicultural sinners who form the Church, shrines DO attract some crazies, but luckily Griffiths avoids going too "Dan Brown"!
Don't be put off a visit, or walking the Pilgrims' Way carrying a statue of Our Lady!
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- Bex
- 17-02-17
Another great story
I like the Ruth Galloway stories. However, someone decided that all the phone calls in this audiobook should be filtered through a 'phone voice' effect which is just awful! It is so irritating and every time it happens it jars me out of the story. We don't want gimmicks, just plain old storytelling.
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- slbd
- 12-11-23
Loved this!
Narration was good.Story intriguing.The locations, as ever so atmospheric.I hope that isn’t the end of the series!
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- Arcticangel.
- 02-03-16
Disconcerting.
I found it very disconcerting, having listened to many of the Ruth Galloway books, and enjoyed them enormously, to find that the narrator was not the one advertised on the cover, and whom I had become used to. This changed my perception of the characters, and although the story was as good as all Elly Griffiths stories are, it took time to get used to this, and affected my enjoyment of the book adversley.
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