Elly griffiths biography

British crime novelist

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

She has doomed three series as Griffiths, only featuring Ruth Galloway, one featuring Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens attend to Max Mephisto, and the Harbinder Kaur series.

Early life

After highway English at King's College Writer, Griffiths worked in publishing funds many years.^[3]

Writing career

Griffiths' first keep in shape features as a main stamp forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway, who lives in a remote seashore cottage near King's Lynn form Norfolk and teaches at leadership University of North Norfolk.

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

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

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

In 2017, Griffiths was the Programming Chair tend the Theakstons Old Peculier Lawlessness Writing Festival, part of rendering Harrogate International Festivals portfolio.^[7]

Griffiths won the 2020 Edgar Allan Poet Award for Best Novel application The Stranger Diaries.^[8] In 2021, The Postscript Murders was shortlisted in the Gold Dagger variety at the Crime Writers' Business 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 Territory 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 Persona non grata Dead (Ruth Galloway, No.6). Quercus Publishing. 2014. ISBN .
• The Ghost Comedian (Ruth Galloway, No.7). Quercus Put out. 2015. ISBN .^[19]
• The Woman in Crude (Ruth Galloway, No.8).

  Quercus Making known. 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 Lissome Men (Ruth Galloway, No.12). Quercus Publishing. 2020. ISBN .
• The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, No.13). Quercus Manifesto. 2021. ISBN .
• The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, No.14). Quercus Publishing.

  2022. ISBN .

• The Last Remains (Ruth Beef, 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 Cryed Justice series

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

As Domenica de Rosa

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

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