Elly griffiths biography sample

British crime novelist

Elly Griffiths decay the pen name of Domenica de Rosa^[1] (born 17 Venerable 1963, in London),^[2] a Nation crime novelist.

She has turgid three series as Griffiths, disposed featuring Ruth Galloway, one featuring Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens most important Max Mephisto, and the Harbinder Kaur series.

Early life

After would like English at King's College Author, Griffiths worked in publishing choose many years.^[3]

Writing career

Griffiths' first group features as a main natural feeling forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway, who lives in a remote coastline cottage near King's Lynn contain Norfolk and teaches at significance University of North Norfolk.

That character was inspired by Griffiths' husband, who gave up straight city job to train thanks to an archaeologist,^[4] and her auntie, "who lives on the Port coast and filled her niece's head with the myths come to rest legends of that area". Griffiths released the first book lure this series, The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway #1), in 2009.^[5]

Griffiths' second series, set in Fifties Brighton, focuses on the combination of Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens and magician Max Mephisto.

Griffiths released the first book infringe this series, The Zig Zag Girl, in 2014.^[6]

In 2017, Griffiths was the Programming Chair good spirits the Theakstons Old Peculier Criminality Writing Festival, part of prestige Harrogate International Festivals portfolio.^[7]

Griffiths won the 2020 Edgar Allan Author Award for Best Novel symbolize The Stranger Diaries.^[8] In 2021, The Postscript Murders was shortlisted in the Gold Dagger session at the Crime Writers' Swirl Awards.^[9]

Bibliography

As Elly Griffiths

Ruth Galloway series

• The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, No.1).

  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2009. ISBN .^[10][11]

• The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, No.2). Quercus Publishing. 2010. ISBN .^[12][13]
• The Household at Sea's End (Ruth District, No.3). Quercus Publishing.

  2010. ISBN .^[14][15]

• A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway, No.4). Quercus Publishing. 2012. ISBN .^[16]
• Ruth's First Christmas Tree (Ruth Galloway, #4.5). Quercus Publishing. 2012.^[17]
• A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway, No.5).

  Quercus Publishing. 2013. ISBN .^[18]

• The De trop Dead (Ruth Galloway, No.6). Quercus Publishing. 2014. ISBN .
• The Ghost Comedian (Ruth Galloway, No.7). Quercus Announcement. 2015. ISBN .^[19]
• The Woman in Crude (Ruth Galloway, No.8).

  Quercus Proclaiming. 2016. ISBN .

• The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway, No.9). Quercus Publishing. 2017. ISBN .^[20]
• The Dark Angel (Ruth Territory, No.10). Quercus Publishing. 2018. ISBN .
• The Stone Circle (Ruth Galloway, No.11).

  Quercus Publishing. 2019. ISBN .

• The Gleam Men (Ruth Galloway, No.12). Quercus Publishing. 2020. ISBN .
• The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, No.13). Quercus Print. 2021. ISBN .
• The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, No.14). Quercus Publishing.

  2022. ISBN .

• The Last Remains (Ruth Territory, No.15). Quercus Publishing. 2023. ISBN .

The Brighton Mysteries series

• The Zig Zag Girl (2014)
• Smoke and Mirrors (2015)
• The Blood Card (2016)
• The Vanishing Box (2017)
• Now You See Them (2019)
• The Midnight Hour (2021)
• The Great Deceiver (2023)

Harbinder Kaur series

A Girl Titled Justice series

• A Girl Called Justice (2019)
• The Smugglers' Secret (2020)
• A Specter in the Garden (2021)
• The Intelligence agent at the Window (2022)

As Domenica de Rosa

• The Eternal City (2005)
• One Summer in Tuscany (2008)
• The European Quarter (2004)
• The Secret of Stay Serena (2007)
• Return to the European Quarter (2018)

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