Book #18 Dying Fall

A Dying Fall: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 5 by Elly Griffiths
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A change of location in Ruth Galloway number 5 when her long-time friend Dan Golding is killed in a house fire - in Lancashire. Is it a coincidence that Ruth receives a letter from Dan, written the day before he died? He had made a ground-breaking discovery and said he was scared. Ruth is compelled to head north to investigate further. So does DCI Harry Nelson who takes his wife on holiday to Blackpool. Ruth takes her daughter Kate with her and faces untold risks in another well paced mystery. I enjoy the continuity of this series, which includes her friend and Kate's godfather Cathbad (Michael Malone) - a druid and self-professed shaman. The eerie North Norfolk coast is replaced with the brooding landscape of the Pendle Forest and the windswept Lancashire coast....

So, five down, five to go....

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Great Knot in Norfolk!

A Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris has been seen at Breydon Water in Norfolk and has bird-watchers racing to get there and see it. This is only the fourth recorded occurrence of this mega rarity in Britain. The first Great Knot was found in 1989 in Shetland, the second in 1996 in Cleveland, the third in both County Dublin and Lancashire in 2004.

The Great Knot

This species breeds in the subarctic and montane tundra habitats of north-eastern Siberia. It is migratory and winters along the coast of Southeast Asia and Australia. It has been very rarely observed on the west coast of Alaska during its spring migration and has also been recorded locally in Western Europe.

Quite a turn-up for Norfolk!