Ruth’s First Christmas Tree is a short story free download in the Ruth Galloway series by British author, Elly Griffiths. While Ruth doesn’t believe in Christmas, her daughter, Kate is now a year old and she realises she will have to do something to mark the holiday in the way of gifts and decorations. She buys a Christmas Tree, her very first, but it ends up being not quite the one she wanted, and further mishaps occur. On December 23rd, she reluctantly attends her boss, Phil’s party, but makes a discovery that allows her to do a good deed for a friend, to set right a wrong. Even readers who are unfamiliar with the series will enjoy this short story, although, positioned as it is between the fourth and fifth book, it may contain some spoilers. Nonetheless, this is an excellent taster: the characters are appealing and newcomers to this series will certainly want more. An inspired Christmas tale which also includes an extract of the fifth book in the series, Dying Fall. This was my first Elly Griffiths book and I quite enjoyed it, but it is just a (very) short story so it is difficult to judge what the rest of her books might be like based on this. The characters seem interesting and I would like to meet them again and read more about them. One thing that did confuse me is that Ruth's daughter Kate seems very advanced for a 13 month old - if her age hadn't been mentioned I would have thought she was at least two or even three!
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Love the Ruth Galloway series and really enjoyed this short story about Ruth and her baby Kate.
—zhongaimei22
I really enjoy this series...a short story to wet your whistle for Griffiths next book.
—andyycm
Free very short story. Only a 3 because nothing actually happened.
—carley
