Elly Griffiths
Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway novels take for their inspiration Elly's husband, who gave up a city job to train as an archaeologist, and her aunt who lives on the Norfolk coast and who filled her niece's head with the myths and legends of that area. Elly has two children and lives near Brighton. Though not her first novel, The Crossing Places is her first crime novel.
The Last Word
Elly Griffiths
Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreham, Sussex. Despite a steady stream of minor cases, Natalka is frustrated, longing for a big juicy case such as murder to come the agency's way. Natalka is now living with dreamer, Benedict. But her Ukrainian mother Valentyna has joined them from her war-torn country and three's a crowd. It's annoying to have Valentyna in the tiny flat, cooking borscht and cleaning things that are already clean. To add to Natalka's irritation, Benedict and her mother get on brilliantly.
Then a murder case turns up. Local writer, Melody Chambers, is found dead and her family are convinced it is murder. Edwin, a big fan of the obit pages, thinks there's a link to the writer of Melody's obituary who pre-deceased his subject.
The trail leads Benedict and Edwin to a slightly sinister writers' retreat. When another writer is found dead, Edwin thinks that the clue lies in the words.
Seeking professional help, the amateur investigators turn to their friend, detective Harbinder Kaur, to find that they have stumbled on a plot that is stranger than fiction.
The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)
Elly Griffiths
The discovery of a missing woman's bones forces Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings for each other as they desperately work to exonerate one of their own.
When builders discover a human skeleton while renovating a café, they call in archaeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway, who is preoccupied with the threatened closure of her department and by her ever-complicated relationship with DCI Nelson. The bones turn out to be modern--the remains of Emily Pickering, a young archaeology student who went missing in 2002. Suspicion soon falls on Emily's Cambridge tutor and also on another archeology enthusiast who was part of the group gathered the weekend before she disappeared--Ruth's friend Cathbad.
As they investigate, Nelson and his team uncover a tangled web of relationships within the archaeology group and look for a link between them and the café where Emily's bones were found. Then, just when the team seem to be making progress, Cathbad disappears. The trail leads Ruth a to the Neolithic flint mines in Grimes Graves. The race is on, first to find Cathbad and then to exonerate him, but will Ruth and Nelson uncover the truth in time to save their friend?
The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway, #3)
Elly Griffiths
Just back from maternity leave, forensic archeologist Ruth is finding it hard to juggle motherhood and work when she is called in to investigate human bones that have surfaced on a remote Norfolk beach. The presence of DCI Harry Nelson, the married father of her daughter, does not help. The bones, six men with their arms bound, turn out to date back to World War II, a desperate time on this stretch of coastland.
As Ruth and Nelson investigate, Home Guard veteran Archie Whitcliffe reveals the existence of a secret the old soldiers have vowed to protect with their lives. But then Archie is killed and a German journalist arrives, asking questions about Operation Lucifer, a plan to stop a German invasion, and a possible British war crime. What was Operation Lucifer? And who is prepared to kill to keep its secret?
A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway, #4)
Elly Griffiths
Combine a splash of Alan Bradley with a pinch of Kathy Reichs and you have a gripping new Ruth Galloway Mystery -- a good-hearted mystery series with a dark edge. Set in Norfolk, England, A Room Full of Bones embroils, once again, our brainy heroine in a crime tinged by occult forces. On Halloween night, the Smith Museum in King's Lynn is preparing for an unusual event -- the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop. But when forensic archaelogist Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise, she finds the curator, Neil Topham, dead beside the coffin. Topham's death seems to be related to other uncanny incidents, including the arcane and suspect methods of a group called the Elginists, which aims to repatriate the museum's extensive collection of Aborigine skulls; the untimely demise of the museum's owner, Lord Smith; and the sudden illness of DCI Harry Nelson, who Ruth's friend Cathbad believes is lost in The Dreaming -- a hallucinogenic state
The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)
Elly Griffiths
Librarian note: See alternate cover edition here.
A dark story has been brought to terrifying life. Can the ending be rewritten in time?
A gripping contemporary Gothic thriller from the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway mysteries: Wilkie Collins and MR James meet Gone Girl and Disclaimer.
Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. As a literature teacher specialising in the Gothic writer RM Holland, she teaches a short course on it every year. Then Clare's life and work collide tragically when one of her colleagues is found dead, a line from an RM Holland story by her body. The investigating police detective is convinced the writer's works somehow hold the key to the case.
Not knowing who to trust, and afraid that the killer is someone she knows, Clare confides her darkest suspicions and fears about the case to her journal. Then one day she notices some other writing in the diary. Writing that isn't hers...
A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway, #5)
Elly Griffiths
Ruth’s old friend Dan Golding dies in a house fire. But before he died Dan wrote to Ruth telling her that he had made a ground-breaking archaeological discovery. Could this find be linked to his death and who are the sinister neo-Nazi group who were threatening Dan? Ruth makes the trip to Blackpool to investigate, wary of encroaching on DCI Harry Nelson’s home ground. Soon Ruth is embroiled in a mystery that involves the Pendle Witches, King Arthur and – scariest of all – Nelson’s mother.
There are forces at work in the town that that threaten all that Ruth holds dear. But, in the final showdown on Blackpool Pleasure Beach, it is Cathbad who faces the greatest danger of all.
The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, #2)
Elly Griffiths
It’s been only a few months since archaeologist Ruth Galloway found herself entangled in a missing persons case, barely escaping with her life. But when construction workers demolishing a large old house in Norwich uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway—minus its skull—Ruth is once again called upon to investigate. Is it a Roman-era ritual sacrifice, or is the killer closer at hand?
Ruth and Detective Harry Nelson would like to find out—and fast. When they realize the house was once a children’s home, they track down the Catholic priest who served as its operator. Father Hennessey reports that two children did go missing from the home forty years before—a boy and a girl. They were never found. When carbon dating proves that the child’s bones predate the home and relate to a time when the house was privately owned, Ruth is drawn ever more deeply into the case. But as spring turns into summer it becomes clear that someone is trying very hard to put her off the trail by frightening her, and her unborn child, half to death.
The Janus Stone is a riveting follow-up to Griffiths’s acclaimed The Crossing Places.
The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)
Elly Griffiths
Forensic archaeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is in her late thirties and lives happily alone with her two cats in a bleak, remote area near Norfolk, land that was sacred to its Iron Age inhabitants—not quite earth, not quite sea. But her routine days of digging up bones and other ancient objects are harshly upended when a child’s bones are found on a desolate beach. Detective Chief Inspector Nelson calls Galloway for help, believing they are the remains of Lucy Downey, a little girl who went missing a decade ago and whose abductor continues to taunt him with bizarre letters containing references to ritual sacrifice, Shakespeare, and the Bible. Then a second girl goes missing and Nelson receives a new letter—exactly like the ones about Lucy. Is it the same killer or a copycat murderer, linked in some way to the site near Ruth’s remote home?
The Man in Black: Stories
Elly Griffiths
This bumper collection of short stories by the No 1 bestselling author features all her best-loved characters: Dr Ruth Galloway, Harry Nelson, Max Mephisto, Detective Harbinder Kaur and many more.
Elly Griffiths has always written short stories to experiment with different voices and genres and to explore what some of her much-loved creations such as Dr Ruth Galloway might have done outside of the novels. This collection gathers them all together in one splendid volume.
Here are bite-sized tales to please and entertain every thriller taste as well as all Elly Griffiths' fans. There are ghost stories and mini cosy mysteries; tales of psychological suspense and poignant vignettes of love and loss. There's a creepy horror story to make you shiver and a tale narrated by Flint, Ruth Galloway's cat, to make you smile.
These stories illustrate the breadth and variety of Elly Griffiths' talent. Even the darkest of them is leavened with light touches of humour. This collection shows an author writing at the top of her game.
The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur, #2)
Elly Griffiths
Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by internationally best-selling author Elly Griffiths, a literary mystery perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz and Agatha Christie. The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should not be suspicious. Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing out of the ordinary when Peggy’s caretaker, Natalka, begins to recount Peggy Smith’s passing. But Natalka had a reason to be at the police station: while clearing out Peggy’s flat, she noticed an unusual number of crime novels, all dedicated to Peggy. And each psychological thriller included a mysterious postscript: PS: for PS. When a gunman breaks into the flat to steal a book and its author is found dead shortly thereafter—Detective Kaur begins to think that perhaps there is no such thing as an unsuspicious death after all. And then things escalate: from an Aberdeen literary festival to the streets of Edinburgh, writers are being targeted. DS Kaur embarks on a road trip across Europe and reckons with how exactly authors can think up such realistic crimes . . .
Forsvundet i mørket (En Ruth Galloway-krimi, #9)
Elly Griffiths
Forsvundet i mørket er niende bind i Elly Griffiths’ populære krimiserie om arkæolog og knogleekspert Ruth Galloway. Hver bog indeholder en selvstændig historie, så bøgerne kan læses uafhængigt af hinanden.
I en gammel underjordisk tunnel under Norwich finder man knogler fra et menneskeskelet. Da Ruth Galloway undersøger dem, opdager hun, at de ikke som forventet stammer fra middelalderen. Det viser sig, at de for nylig er blevet kogt og gravet ned. Sagen lander på kriminalkommissær Harry Nelsons bord, og Ruth og Nelson må igen arbejde tæt sammen om en sag, denne gang for at afsløre de mørke hemmeligheder, der gemmer sig under jorden – før det er for sent.
Huset på klippen (En Ruth Galloway-krimi, #3)
Elly Griffiths
Ruth Galloway tilkaldes, da et hold arkæologer afdækker et ligved foden af en klippe, men Ruth har svært ved at fokusere på sagen. Dels er hun netop vendt tilbage fra barselsorlov, dels er det Harry Nelson, der leder efterforskningen, og han og Ruth har et mildest talt uafklaret forhold til hinanden. Liget viser sig at have ligget skjult i sandet længe – formodentlig siden Anden Verdenskrig. Men da endnu et lig bliver skyllet op på stranden, går det op for Ruth og Nelson, at der muligvis er en morder på spil, der forsøger at skjule en grusom hemmelighed fra krigens tid – og snart er de selv i livsfare …
De udstødte (En Ruth Galloway-krimi, #6)
Elly Griffiths
Den lidt særprægede, rapkæftede og charmerende arkæolog Ruth Galloway er tilbage i denne sjette bog i serien, hvor hun og kriminalinspektør Henry Nelson gang på gang bliver kastet ud i mystiske mordgåder, der ofte har forbindelse til fortiden.
I De udstødte bliver Ruth og Nelson atter indirekte involveret i en sag sammen – denne gang en kidnapningssag, der måske på mystisk vis har forbindelse til grufulde hændelser i fortiden.
Døden på museet (En Ruth Galloway-krimi, #4)
Elly Griffiths
'VANEDANNENDE’ RUTH GALLOWAY ER TILBAGE I FJERDE BOG I FAVORITSERIE Da Ruth Galloway bliver inddraget i opklaringen af mordet på en kurator på et lokalt museum i Norfolk, trækkes hun samtidig ind i et univers spækket med okkulte kræfter og skræmmende personligheder. Også privat har Ruth nok at se til som enlig mor til den datter, hun har med vicekriminalkommissær Nelson.Ruth Galloways støt voksende fanskare i Danmark kan se frem til endnu en spændende mordgåde med Ruth og Nelsons uafklarede forhold som baggrundstæppe.
The Zig Zag Girl (Stephens & Mephisto, #1)
Elly Griffiths
Brighton, 1950.
When the body of a girl is found, cut into three, Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is reminded of a magic trick, the Zig Zag Girl.
The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, is an old friend of Edgar’s. They served together in the war as part of a shadowy unit called the Magic Men.
Max is still on the circuit, touring seaside towns in the company of ventriloquists, sword-swallowers and dancing girls. Changing times mean that variety is not what it once was, yet Max is reluctant to leave this world to help Edgar investigate. But when the dead girl turns out to be known to him, Max changes his mind.
Another death, another magic trick: Edgar and Max become convinced that the answer to the murders lies in their army days. When Edgar receives a letter warning of another ‘trick’, the Wolf Trap, he knows that they are all in danger…
Bleeding Heart Yard (Harbinder Kaur, #3)
Elly Griffiths
A murderer strikes at a school reunion--but the students are no strangers to death-- in this propulsive, twisty thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries Is it possible to forget that you've committed a murder?
When Cassie Fitzgerald was at school in the late 90s, she and her friends killed a fellow student. Almost twenty years later, Cassie is a happily married mother who loves her job--as a police officer. She closely guards the secret she has all but erased from her memory.
One day her husband finally persuades her to go to a school reunion. Cassie catches up with her high-achieving old friends from the Manor Park School--among them two politicians, a rock star, and a famous actress. But then, shockingly, one of them, Garfield Rice, is found dead in the school bathroom, supposedly from a drug overdose. As Garfield was an eminent--and controversial--MP and the investigation is high profile, it's headed by Cassie's new boss, DI Harbinder Kaur, freshly promoted and newly arrived in London. The trouble is, Cassie can't shake the feeling that one of them has killed again.
Is Cassie right, or was Garfield murdered by one of his political cronies? It's in Cassie's interest to skew the investigation so that it looks like it has nothing to do with Manor Park and she seems to be succeeding.
Until someone else from the reunion is found dead in Bleeding Heart Yard...
The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)
Elly Griffiths
Pandemic lockdowns have Ruth Galloway feeling isolated from everyone but a new neighbor--until Nelson comes calling, investigating a decades-long string of murder-suicides that's looming ever closer. Three years after her late mother's death, Ruth is finally sorting through her things when she finds a curious relic: a decades-old photograph of Jean's Norfolk cottage with a peculiar inscription. Ruth returns to the cottage to uncover its meaning as Norfolk's first cases of COVID-19 make headlines, leaving her and Kate to shelter in place there. They struggle to stave off isolation by clapping for frontline workers each evening and befriending a kind neighbor, Zoe, from a distance. But when Nelson breaks quarantine to rush to Ruth's cottage and enlist her help in investigating a series of murder-suicides he has connected to an archeological discovery, he finds Zoe is hardly who she says she is. The further Nelson investigates these deaths, the closer they lead him to Ruth's friendly neighbor--until Ruth, Zoe, and Kate all go missing, and Nelson is left scrambling to find them before it's too late.
The Great Deceiver: the gripping new novel from the bestselling author of The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries
Elly Griffiths
The next gripping volume in The Brighton Mysteries series by bestselling author Elly Griffiths.
Magician Max Mephisto, now divorced and living in London, is on his way to visit daughter Ruby and her new-born baby when he is hailed by a voice from the past, fellow performer Ted English, aka the Great Deceiver. Ted's assistant, Cherry, has been found dead in her Brighton boarding house and he's convinced that he'll be accused of her murder.
Max agrees to talk to his friend, Superintendent Edgar Stephens, who is investigating the case. What Max doesn't know is that the girl's family have hired private detective duo Emma Holmes (aka Mrs Stephens) and Sam Collins to do some digging of their own.
The inhabitants of the boarding house, most of whom are performing in an Old Time Music Hall show on Brighton pier, are a motley crew. The house is also connected to a sinister radio personality called Pal. When a second magician's assistant is killed, Edgar suspects a serial killer. He persuades Max to come out of semi-retirement and take part in a summer show. But who can pose as his assistant? Edgar shocks the team by recommending someone close ...
The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway Mysteries, #12)
Elly Griffiths
Everything has changed for Dr. Ruth Galloway.
She has a new job, home and partner, and is no longer North Norfolk police's resident forensic archaeologist. That is, until convicted murderer Amyas March offers to make DCI Nelson a deal. Nelson was always sure that March killed more women than he was charged with. Now March confirms this, and offers to show Nelson where the other bodies are buried - but only if Ruth will do the digging.
Curious, but wary, Ruth agrees. March tells Ruth that he killed four more women and that their bodies are buried near a village bordering the fens, said to be haunted by the Lantern Men, mysterious figures holding lights that lure travellers to their deaths.
Is Amyas March himself a lantern man, luring Ruth back to Norfolk? What is his plan, and why is she so crucial to it? And are the killings really over?
The Outcast Dead (Ruth Galloway, #6)
Elly Griffiths
Ruth Galloway uncovers the bones of what might be a notorious Victorian child murderess and a baby snatcher known as "The Childminder" threatens modern-day Norfolk in the latest irresistible mystery from Elly Griffiths.
Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway uncovers the bones of a Victorian murderess while a baby snatcher threatens modern-day Norfolk in this exciting new entry in a beloved series.
Every year a ceremony is held in Norwich for the bodies in the paupers' graves: the Service for the Outcast Dead. Ruth has a particular interest in this year's proceedings. Her recent dig at Norwich Castle turned up the body of the notorious Mother Hook, who was hanged in 1867 for the murder of five children. Now Ruth is the reluctant star of the TV series Women Who Kill, working alongside the program's alluring history expert, Professor Frank Barker.
DCI Harry Nelson is immersed in the case of three children found dead in their home. He is sure that the mother is responsible. Then another child is abducted and a kidnapper dubbed the Childminder claims responsibility. Are there two murderers afoot, or is the Childminder behind all the deaths? The team must race to find out-and the stakes couldn't be any higher when another child goes missing.
The Stone Circle (Ruth Galloway, #11)
Elly Griffiths
Librarian note: See alternate cover edition here.
DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters telling him to 'go to the stone circle and rescue the innocent who is buried there'. He is shaken, not only because children are very much on his mind, with Michelle's baby due to be born, but because although the letters are anonymous, they are somehow familiar. They read like the letters that first drew him into the case of The Crossing Places, and to Ruth. But the author of those letters is dead. Or are they?Meanwhile Ruth is working on a dig in the Saltmarsh - another henge, known by the archaeologists as the stone circle - trying not to think about the baby. Then bones are found on the site, and identified as those of Margaret Lacey, a twelve-year-old girl who disappeared thirty years ago.As the Margaret Lacey case progresses, more and more aspects of it begin to hark back to that first case of The Crossing Places, and to Scarlett Henderson, the girl Nelson couldn't save. The past is reaching out for Ruth and Nelson, and its grip is deadly.
The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway, #9)
Elly Griffiths
Boiled human bones have been found in Norwich's web of underground tunnels. When Dr Ruth Galloway discovers they are recent - the boiling not the medieval curiosity she thought - DCI Nelson has a murder enquiry on his hands.
Meanwhile, DS Judy Johnson is investigating the disappearance of a local rough sleeper. The only trace of her is the rumour that she's gone 'underground'. This might be a figure of speech, but with the discovery of the bones and the rumours both Ruth and the police have heard of a vast network of old chalk-mining tunnels under King's Lynn, home to a vast community of rough sleepers, the clues point in only one direction. Local academic Martin Kellerman knows all about the tunnels and their history - but can his assertions of cannibalism and ritual killing possibly be true?
As the weather gets hotter, tensions rise. A local woman goes missing and the police are under attack. Ruth and Nelson must unravel the dark secrets of The Underground and discover just what gruesome secrets lurk at its heart - before it claims another victim.
The Dark Angel (Ruth Galloway, #10)
Elly Griffiths
Dr Ruth Galloway is flattered when she receives a letter from Italian archaeologist Dr Angelo Morelli, asking for her help. He's discovered a group of bones in a tiny hilltop village but doesn't know what to make of them. It's years since Ruth has had a holiday, and even a working holiday to Italy is very welcome!So Ruth travels to Fontana Liri, accompanied by her daughter Kate and friend Shona. In the town she finds a medieval shrine and a dark secret involving the war years and the Resistance. To her amazement she also finds Harry Nelson, who is enduring a terrible holiday at a resort nearby. But there is no time to overcome their mutual shock - the ancient bones spark a modern murder, and Ruth must discover what secrets there are in Fontana Liri that someone would kill to protect
Ruth's First Christmas Tree (Ruth Galloway, #4.5)
Elly Griffiths
It is three days before Christmas and a bitter wind is blowing across Norfolk.
Until her daughter was born, forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway didn’t do Christmas, but now that Kate is a year old, she wants it to be special.
She must get a tree, shop for food, clean the house, buy presents, including one for her new boyfriend—who she isn’t even sure is her boyfriend—and remember to get the turkey out of the freezer.
But time is rushing by and the best-laid plans don’t always work out …
The Great Deceiver (The Brighton Mysteries, Book 7)
Elly Griffiths
The next gripping volume in The Brighton Mysteries series by bestselling author Elly Griffiths.
Magician Max Mephisto, now divorced and living in London, is on his way to visit daughter Ruby and her new-born baby when he is hailed by a voice from the past, fellow performer Ted English, aka the Great Deceiver. Ted's assistant, Cherry, has been found dead in her Brighton boarding house and he's convinced that he'll be accused of her murder.
Max agrees to talk to his friend, Superintendent Edgar Stephens, who is investigating the case. What Max doesn't know is that the girl's family have hired private detective duo Emma Holmes (aka Mrs Stephens) and Sam Collins to do some digging of their own.
The inhabitants of the boarding house, most of whom are performing in an Old Time Music Hall show on Brighton pier, are a motley crew. The house is also connected to a sinister radio personality called Pal. When a second magician's assistant is killed, Edgar suspects a serial killer. He persuades Max to come out of semi-retirement and take part in a summer show. But who can pose as his assistant? Edgar shocks the team by recommending someone close ...
Kvinden i blåt (En Ruth Galloway-krimi, #8)
Elly Griffiths
8. bind i den populære krimiserie om arkæolog og knogleekspert Ruth Galloway, som har solgt over 100.000 eksemplarer i Danmark alene. Hver bog indeholder en selvstændig historie, så bøgerne kan læses uafhængigt af hinanden.
På en kirkegård i Walsingham sidder en mystisk kvindeskikkelse. Hun er iklædt en blå kappe, og det ser ud, som om hun venter på nogen. Dagen efter bliver hun fundet myrdet, og vicekriminalkommissær Harry Nelson kan konstatere, at den døde kvinde var en smuk fotomodel indlagt på en lokal afvænningsklinik. Ruth Galloways gamle veninde fra universitetet er præst i Walsingham, som er et gammelt pilgrimsmål i Norfolk, der vrimler med nonner, præster og nysgerrige turister. Hun tilkalder Ruth i forbindelse med en anden ubehagelig sag: Veninden er begyndt at modtage hadske, anonyme breve, der indeholder referencer til ”en kvinde i blåt”.
Sammenhængen mellem den døde kvinde og trusselsbrevene kan umuligt være et tilfælde. Mens det lille samfund forbereder sig på det årlige påskespil om Jesu korsfæstelse, indleder Ruth og Nelson en kamp mod tiden. For alt tyder på, at morderen vil slå til igen.
Stemmer fra graven (En Ruth Galloway-krimi, #7)
Elly Griffiths
Arkæolog Ruth Galloway tilkaldes, da et jagerfly fra Anden Verdenskrig dukker op under udgravningsarbejdet på en byggegrund. I cockpittet sidder liget af en mand, der ved første øjekast ser ud til at være flyets pilot. En dna-test viser dog, at der er tale om Fred Blackstock, en lokal aristokrat, som angiveligt blev skudt ned over Nordsøen under krigen – men i et helt andet fly. Sagen kompliceres yderligere, da kriminalinspektør Harry Nelson og hans team gør et mistænkeligt fund på en svinefarm, og en af Fred Blackstocks efterkommere tilmed bliver overfaldet. Snart må Ruth og Nelson indse, at de jagter en langt farligere gerningsmand, end de først troede …
Lygtemændene (En Ruth Galloway-krimi, #12)
Elly Griffiths
Arkæolog og knogleekspert Ruth Galloways nye liv forstyrres, da en dømt morder trækker i trådene og bringer Ruth og kriminalkommissær Nelson sammen igen.
Ruth Galloway har et nyt job i Cambridge, et nyt hjem og en ny partner, og hun er ikke længere politiets knogleekspert. Men da en dømt morder tilbyder sin hjælp, lokkes Ruth tilbage til politiet i Norfolk og til kriminalkommissær Nelson.
Nelson har altid været sikker på, at Ivor March stod bag flere kvindemord end dem, han blev dømt for. Nu tilbyder March at vise, hvor de andre kvinder er begravet, hvis Ruth står for udgravningen.
Ifølge March er kvinderne begravet i et område, der er hjemsøgt af lygtemænd: mystiske figurer, der med deres lanterner lokker rejsende i døden. Hvad er Marchs plan, og hvorfor er Ruth så vigtig for den? Er morderen virkelig fanget og sat bag lås og slå?
Det tavse vidne (En Ruth Galloway-krimi, #5)
Elly Griffiths
Glæd dig til femte bind i den populære serie om den herligt genkendelige og slagfærdige arkæolog Ruth Galloway, som denne gang bliver sat på en hård prøve, da hun får besked om et dødsfald, der rammer hende personligt. Ruth bliver dybt berørt, da hun får en meddelelse om, at hendes gamle ven Dan Golding har mistet livet i en brand. Men da Ruth modtager et brev fra Dan, afløses sorgen af mistænksomhed. Dan har nemlig sendt brevet, dagen før han omkom. Han havde angiveligt gjort et banebrydende fund, og han var skrækslagen for, hvilke konsekvenser det ville få. Kan fundet have forbindelse til hans død? Ruth tager til Blackpool for at undersøge sagen nærmere, selv om hun ikke er meget for at bevæge sig ind på Nelsons territorium. Inden længe er hun involveret i en sag, der har tråde til både en gruppe nynazister og heksedyrkere. Men for Ruth er det mest skræmmende måske, at hun samtidig bliver præsenteret for Nelsons mor … Det tavse vidne er femte bog i serien om Ruth Galloway. Hvert bind indeholder en selvstændig, afsluttet historie.
Det Låste rum (En Ruth Galloway-krimi, #14)
Elly Griffiths
Arkæolog Ruth Galloway er i London for at rydde op i sin afdøde mors ejendele, da hun gør en overraskende opdagelse. I hendes mors gemmer ligger et gammelt foto af Ruths hus i Norfolk, taget længe før Ruth flyttede ind. Den eneste ledetråd er en kort tekst skrevet på bagsiden af billedet: ”Dawn, 1963”. Ruth vender tilbage til Norfolk fast besluttet på at løse mysteriet om det mystiske billede, men Covid-19 rammer verden og sætter alt i stå, og Ruth må holde sig hjemme under myndighedernes nedlukning af samfundet. Heldigvis er der flyttet en ny, venlig lejer ind i nabohuset, en kvinde ved navn Zoe, som Ruth falder i snak med hen over hækken.
Samtidig efterforsker kriminalkommissær Nelson en række sager, hvor en række kvinder tilsyneladende har begået selvmord. Da disse dødsfald viser sig at være forbundet med et arkæologisk fund, opsøger Nelson Ruth. Uden for hendes hus møder han naboen Zoe, som han straks genkender: Zoe er identisk med en sygeplejerske, der engang var tiltalt for at have slået sin arbejdsgiver ihjel. Dengang hed hun bare ikke Zoe. Hun hed Dawn.
Den sorte hund (En Ruth Galloway-krimi, #13)
Elly Griffiths
En lokal gruppe metaldetektor-entusiaster leder efter skatte i jorden, da de finder et lig på stranden i Norfolk. Kriminalkommissær Nelson tror først, at den døde kan være en druknet asylansøger, men det viser sig at være liget af en lokal ung mand, der netop er blevet løsladt fra fængslet. En samling af bronzealdervåben dukker også op på stranden, og den vækker arkæologen Ruth Galloways interesse.
Da der sker endnu et dødsfald, og Nelson står over for ikke bare et, men to mistænkelige sager, tyder det efterhånden på, at en morder er på spil. Og snart begynder alle spor at pege i retning af den afsidesliggende gård Black Dog Farm, hvor et lokalt sagn fortæller om en spøgelseshund, der viser sig for folk, lige før de dør. Ruth lader sig normalt ikke så let skræmme – men Black Dog Farm kan få hårene til at rejse sig på enhver…
Stencirklen (En Ruth Galloway-krimi, #11)
Elly Griffiths
Fortiden rækker ud efter arkæolog og knogleekspert Ruth Galloway og kriminalkommissær Harry Nelson, da et skelet bliver fundet begravet i Saltmarsken. Sagen trækker tråde tilbage til den første sag, der bragte Ruth og Nelson sammen.
Kriminalkommissær Nelson er rystet. Han har på det seneste modtaget anonyme trusselsbreve med mystiske beskeder om, at han skal redde de uskyldige mennesker, der ”ligger begravet ved stencirklen”. Ordlyden minder ham om en række breve, han modtog for flere år siden – men afsenderen fra dengang er sidenhen død. Eller er han?
Imens arbejder Ruth Galloway på en udgravning i Saltmarsken. Men så finder man menneskeknogler begravet i jorden, og de identificeres som resterne af den 12-årige Margaret Lacey, der forsvandt sporløst for 30 år siden. Efterhånden som sagen skrider frem, peger flere spor på en gammel sag om en anden lokal pige, der forsvandt – og som kriminalkommissær Nelson ikke kunne nå at redde i tide.
Stencirklen er 11. bind i den populære krimiserie om arkæolog og knogleekspert Ruth Galloway, som har solgt over 200,000 eksemplarer i Danmark. Hver bog indeholder en selvstændig historie, så bøgerne kan læses uafhængigt af hinanden.
Den mørke engel (En Ruth Galloway-krimi, #10)
Elly Griffiths
”En af Englands bedste krimiforfattere.” – Kristeligt Dagblad
Den mørke engel er tiende bind i Elly Griffiths’ populære krimiserie om arkæolog og knogleekspert Ruth Galloway, som har solgt over 160.000 eksemplarer i Danmark alene. Hver bog indeholder en selvstændig historie, så bøgerne kan læses uafhængigt af hinanden.
Ruth Galloway bliver smigret, da hun modtager et brev fra den italienske arkæolog Dr. Angelo Morelli, som spørger hende om hjælp til sin forskning. Han har fundet nogle knogler i en lille italiensk bjergby, som han ikke kan klassificere. Det er flere år siden, Ruth har været på ferie, så selv en forretningsrejse er mere end velkommen!
Ruth rejser til Italien sammen med sin datter og sin veninde Shona. I den lille bjergby Fontana Liri finder hun et middelalderligt gravkammer og en mørk hemmelighed om anden verdenskrig og modstandsbevægelsen. Til hendes store forbløffelse finder hun også kriminalkommissær Harry Nelson, som tilfældigvis opholder sig på et nærliggende ferieresort. Men der er ikke tid til at dvæle ved det glade gensyn, for de gamle knogler viser sig nemlig at hænge sammen med et nutidigt mord. Endnu en gang er Ruth en del af en mordefterforskning, og der er ingen tid at spilde – for nogen er tilsyneladende villig til at dræbe for at beskytte de hemmeligheder, der gemmer sig i Fontana Liri.
”Den mest interessante krimihelt lige nu … Hun er relaterbar og ægte og kan lægge krimipuslespil som ingen anden.” – Politiken
”En fremragende serie.” – THE GUARDIAN
Pigen under jorden (En Ruth Galloway-krimi, #1)
Elly Griffiths
Da politiet finder menneskeknogler i saltmarksen udenfor King’s Lynn i Norfolk, tror de, de tilhører Lucy Downey, en lille pige som blev kidnappet ti år tidligere, og arkæolog og knogleekspert Ruth Galloway bliver tilkaldt. Men Ruth konstaterer, til kriminalinspektør Harry Nelsons skuffelse, at knoglerne er mere end tusind år gamle. Lige siden Lucy forsvandt, har Nelson modtaget mystiske breve med referencer til rituelle ofringer. Da endnu en pige forsvinder, beder han Ruth om at hjælpe med at tolke brevenes indhold. Mens Nelson og Ruth nærmer sig hinanden, viser det sig, at Ruth er i livsfare, fordi hun hjælper politiet. Jagten på kidnapperen bliver en kamp mod uret – både for den forsvundne pige og for Ruth selv.
Elly Griffiths krimidebut indeholder både spænding og et karaktergalleri, der er lige så fængslende som plottet. Pigen under jorden er første bog i en serie på nu foreløbig ni krimier om Ruth Galloway.
Løgnens hus (En Ruth Galloway-krimi, #2)
Elly Griffiths
UIMODSTÅELIGE RUTH GALLOWAY ER TILBAGE I NY KRIMI
”Vanedannende!” Sådan beskriver Elly Griffiths fans hendes krimiserie om den knap 40-årige lidt særprægede og rapkæftede arkæolog Ruth Galloway.
Stærke og stemningsfulde miljøbeskrivelser, et solidt plot og ikke mindst en gennemgående kærlighedshistorie har sikret Griffiths en kolossal læserskare - også i Danmark, hvor første bog i serien om Ruth Galloway, Pigen under jorden netop er udkommet til begejstret omtale.
Ruth Galloway bliver tilkaldt, da en gruppe bygningsarbejdere under nedrivningen af et forfaldent hus i Norwich finder barneknogler under et dørtrin. Kraniet mangler. Er der tale om en rituel ofring eller et overlagt mord? Sammen med kriminalinspektør Harry Nelson indleder Ruth en efterforskning af sagen, og det viser sig, at huset er et tidligere børnehjem ledet af en katolsk præst. Og at to børn forsvandt for 40 år siden og aldrig blev fundet igen …
The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)
Elly Griffiths
In the next Ruth Galloway mystery, a vision of the Virgin Mary foreshadows a string of cold-blooded murders, revealing a dark current of religious fanaticism in an old medieval town. Known as England’s Nazareth, the medieval town of Little Walsingham is famous for religious apparitions. So when Ruth Galloway’s druid friend Cathbad sees a woman in a white dress and a dark blue cloak standing alone in the local cemetery one night, he takes her as a vision of the Virgin Mary. But then a woman wrapped in blue cloth is found dead the next day, and Ruth’s old friend Hilary, an Anglican priest, receives a series of hateful, threatening letters. Could these crimes be connected? When one of Hilary’s fellow female priests is murdered just before Little Walsingham’s annual Good Friday Passion Play, Ruth, Cathbad, and DCI Harry Nelson must team up to find the killer before he strikes again.
The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)
Elly Griffiths
Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another killer. A devastating new case for our favourite forensic archaeologist in this acclaimed and bestselling crime series.
The Night Hawks, a group of metal detectorists, are searching for buried treasure when they find a body on the beach in North Norfolk. At first Nelson thinks that the dead man might be an asylum seeker but he turns out to be a local boy, Jem Taylor, recently released from prison. Ruth is more interested in the treasure, a hoard of Bronze Age weapons. Nelson at first thinks that Taylor's death is accidental drowning, but a second death suggests murder.
Nelson is called to an apparent murder-suicide of a couple at the isolated Black Dog Farm. Local legend talks of the Black Shuck, a spectral hound that appears to people before they die. Nelson ignores this, even when the owner's suicide note includes the line, 'He's buried in the garden.' Ruth excavates and finds the body of a giant dog.
All roads lead back to this farm in the middle of nowhere, but the place spells serious danger for anyone who goes near. Ruth doesn't scare easily. Not until she finds herself at Black Dog Farm ...
The Frozen People (Ali Dawson, #1)
Elly Griffiths
Cold cases are a lot easier to solve when you can travel back in time to find new evidence—unless, that is, you get stuck in the nineteenth century.
Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old they’re frozen—or so their inside joke goes. Ali’s work seems like a safe desk job, but what her friends—and even her beloved son—don’t know is that her team has a secret: They can travel back in time to look for evidence.
So far Ali has made trips only to the recent past, so she’s surprised when she’s asked to investigate a murder that took place in 1850. The killing has been pinned on an aristocratic patron of the arts and antiquities, a member of a sinister group called "The Collectors." She arrives in the Victorian era during a mini ice age to find another dead woman at her feet and far too many unanswered questions. But when her son is arrested, Ali attempts to return home only to find herself trapped in 1850.
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