A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway, No.4).The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway, No.3).The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, No.2).The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, No.1).She is married, and has two children and a cat.īibliography As Elly Griffiths Ruth Galloway series In 2021, The Postscript Murders was shortlisted in the Gold Dagger category at the Crime Writer's Association Awards, with the result to be announced in July 2021. Griffiths won the 2020 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel for The Stranger Diaries. In 2017 Griffiths was the Programming Chair for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, part of the Harrogate International Festivals portfolio. Griffiths released the first book in this series, The Zig Zag Girl, in 2014. Griffiths' second series, set in 1950s Brighton, focuses on the duo of Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens and magician Max Mephisto. Griffiths released the first book in this series, The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1), in 2009. This character was inspired by Griffiths' husband, who gave up a city job to train as an archaeologist, and her aunt, 'who lives on the Norfolk coast and filled her niece's head with the myths and legends of that area'. Griffiths' first series features as a main character forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway, who lives in a remote seaside cottage near King's Lynn in Norfolk and teaches at the University of North Norfolk. She has written three series as Griffiths, one featuring Ruth Galloway, one featuring Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens and Max Mephisto, and the Harbinder Kaur series.Īfter reading English at King's College London, Griffiths worked in publishing for many years.

Ruth Galloway series, Stephens and Mephisto seriesĮlly Griffiths is the pen name of Domenica de Rosa (born 17 August 1963, in London), a British crime novelist. Crime fiction, Romance, Children's fiction

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