The Woman In Blue: The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries 8

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De Hollandse meesters van een Amsterdamse bankier : de verzameling van Adriaan van der Hoop (1778-1854), p. 53-54 Reader favorite, druid priest Cathbad, is cat sitting in Little Walsingham. It is a religious place for many people. He doesn't think too much of it when he sees a mysterious lady in white with a blue cape walking the cemetery in the late hours of the evening; maybe he was one of the fortunate to capture a glimpse of the Virgin Mary. However, a woman's body is discovered the next morning and Cathbad may be the last person to see her alive. DCI Harry Nelson, Clough, and Tim are all on the scene trying to piece together what happened to the woman in blue who just so happens to be a high profile young model. A young model who happens to be a patient at the local rehab facility. Media attention means the Superintendent's attention and the killer must be found. DF: Once I knew that this was my next film, I started looking for a police department that would make sense to explore this question of what women could bring to it. I looked at one PD in Pittsburgh that had had a consent decree, which had resulted in a lot of women getting hired. Then I looked at Minneapolis, because it had a Chief who was a woman, Chief Harteau. I was in Minneapolis a week later, and she gave me full access to any woman who agreed to be in the film. She had just started a recruitment campaign for women and was really championing that type of reform in the department. The timing was crazy. Chief Harteau was like a one-woman consent decree in that she had made it a priority to put women in every rank of leadership. She really felt like more women could help transform the culture. Now, all this being said, MPD still had a relatively small percentage of women, only 16 percent — which is still above the national average — so it was still a very masculine institution and she was trying to change that.

It is because of people’s comments here on Goodreads that I decided to give this book a try. Relying mostly on libraries for my books, I often find myself coming into a series midway through. The only other one I had read of this series which I didn’t realise till later was book 5. Despite this being book 8 in the series, I found it easy enough to get into and follow what was happening. The story covers plenty of territory with archaeology, information about the medieval town, religious rites and the annual passion play, as well as the issue of women priests, which as the story shows can be polarising, plus the ongoing fluctuating relationship that exists between Ruth and Harry. Though married to Michael, Harry is the father of Ruth’s five year old daughter Kate.Women in Blue follows Harteau’s uphill battle to reform her department as the city of Minneapolis, long before an MPD officer killed George Floyd in May of 2020, grapples with a troubled history of police misconduct and racism. Her efforts involve getting rid of corrupt police officers, re-training the rest, diversifying the ranks, and, crucially: recruiting more women and promoting them into leadership at every level. The film also follows three of these women from different ranks, each committed to reimagining their profession. Reading Elly Griffiths is like sitting down for a wine and chat with your best friend. She has a direct no nonsense style to her writing, but still manages to inject loads of atmosphere and detail. Snow, Edward A. (1994). A study of Vermeer. University of California Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-520-07132-2 . Retrieved 18 June 2010. Weber, Gregor J.M. (2013). Woman in Blue Reading a Letter. Translated by Hoyle, Michael. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum. ISBN 978-94-91714-06-1.

It is one thing to have a unique location but the author utilises it fully, from the carpet of snowdrops to the climax during the Easter Passion Play. Creating not just a terrific crime mystery but rooting it in a reality that makes it come alive and be both believable and threatening at the same time.

This luminous masterpiece, recently restored at the Rijksmuseum, will be displayed from September 19, 2015, through December 1, 2016, in the Dutch and Flemish Cabinet Galleries. It will hang with Vermeer paintings from the Gallery's own collection, including Woman Holding a Balance (c. 1664) and Girl with a Red Hat (c. 1665/1666)—the latter newly returned after being featured in Small Treasures, an exhibition shown in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Birmingham, Alabama—as well as Girl with a Flute (1665–1675), attributed to Vermeer. Three and a half stars. While Cathbad, a friend of Ruth Galloway, is house-sitting in the Norfolk village of Walsingham, he sees a woman in white with a blue cloak in the graveyard. Since Wasingham is famous for pilgrimages and a fascination with the Virgin Mary, Cathbad, even though he is a druid, wonders if he has seen the Madonna. That is, until next morning when a young blonde woman is found dead just outside Walsingham dressed in a white nightgown and blue dressing gown. DCI Harry Nelson and his team are called in to investigate the murder. Ruth Galloway is brought into the situation when an old university friend Hilary who is now an Anglican priest, has been receiving anonymous and vengeful letters because of her role as a woman priest. Could the murder and the letters be linked? Then another woman, who is also an Anglican priest is murdered. Can Nelson with a little help from his team and also Ruth, find the culprit before the murderer kills again?