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Elly’s February 2020 tour
Posted on: 14/01/20
To support the launch of The Lantern Men in hardback, audiobook and ebook, Elly is going on tour throughout the month of February. Take a look at the upcoming events below, and you can find more details on Elly’s Facebook page.
Elly Griffiths on tour, Spring 2019
Posted on: 01/02/19
I’m really excited to be going on tour to publicise The Stone Circle. Schedule at present: Wednesday 6th February An Evening with Elly Griffiths Jarrold Department Store, Norwich 6:30pm for 7pm The Pantry Restaurant, floor 3 Thursday 7th February Coffe …
Elly Griffiths on tour, Autumn 2018
Posted on: 11/10/18
I’m really excited to be going on tour to publicise The Stranger Diaries. Schedule at present: 16th October, 6pm Rochdale Literature and Ideas Festival Rochdale Parish Church of St. Chad With Isabelle Grey and William Shaw 18th October, 7:30pm Frinton …
The Stranger Diaries is out on 1st November
Posted on: 10/10/18
I’m very excited because my first stand-alone crime novel The Stranger Diaries will be published in the UK on 1st November 2018. Talgarth School in Sussex used to be the home of a Victorian writer called RM Holland, famous for a ghost story called The …
An update from Elly
Posted on: 15/06/17
Well, it’s been a busy six months. I finished writing Stephens and Mephisto 4, The Vanishing Box, on New Year’s Eve (also a good way of avoiding helping with the cooking for the party we had rashly decided on giving) and started Ruth 10, The Dark Angel …
Elly Griffiths on tour
Posted on: 10/02/17
I’m really excited to be going on tour to publicise The Chalk Pit. Schedule at present: Wednesday 22nd February 7.30pm Topping & Co, Ely For tickets: https://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/ely/elly-griffiths-6/ 9 High Street, Ely Cambridgeshire CB7 …
My Latest Books
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Standalone novels
The Postscript Murders
PS: Thanks for the murders. The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should absolutely not be suspicious. DS Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing to concern her in carer Natalka’s account of Peggy Smith’s death. But when Natalka rev …
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The Ruth Galloway Novels
The Locked Room
Ruth is in London clearing out her mother’s belongings when she makes a surprising discovery: a photograph of her Norfolk cottage taken before Ruth lived there. Her mother always hated the cottage, so why does she have a picture of the place? The only …
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The Brighton Mysteries
The Midnight Hour
When theatrical impresario Bert Billington is found dead in his retirement home, no one suspects foul play. But when the postmortem reveals that he was poisoned, suspicion falls on his wife, eccentric ex-Music Hall star Verity Malone. Frustrated by the …
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The Justice Series
A Girl Called Justice
Missing maids, suspicious teachers and a snow storm to die for… For a fearless girl called Justice Jones, super-smart super-sleuth, it’s just the start of a spine-tingling first term at Highbury House Boarding School for the Daughters of Gentlefolk. …
Research
Background Research
I love doing research, which is just as well really. All the Ruth books feature a particular archaeological discovery, and for the Stephens and Mephisto books, I got to explore my home town of Brighton. Read more >
Tweet!
Two of our wonderful guests @GwylCrimeFest '22 are up for a #TheakstonAward this year: @ellygriffiths and @VaseemKhanUK 😀If you'd like to see them in action, before you vote, go to our Youtube channel playlist and select events 3 and 4 respectively:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW60NvmBeR9eHFIinKKxjiQQfs17QTx_s https://twitter.com/HarrogateFest/status/1540055842208288768

Who gets your vote?
It's a tough choice - the #TheakstonAward shortlist includes six brilliant books.
You can have your say here 👉 https://bit.ly/3MV9MQ1
Voting closes 8 July.
@ellygriffiths @josephknox__ @LauraSRobinson @VaseemKhanUK @willrdean
Really looking forward to this! I’m a huge admirer of @PryorFrancis - as is Ruth!

@PryorFrancis and @ellygriffiths in Conversation. TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW in store and online at https://www.waterstones.com/events/digging-for-stories/kings-lynn
Who gets your vote?
It's a tough choice - the #TheakstonAward shortlist includes six brilliant books.
You can have your say here 👉 https://bit.ly/3MV9MQ1
Voting closes 8 July.
@ellygriffiths @josephknox__ @LauraSRobinson @VaseemKhanUK @willrdean
If you love a good murder mystery this is the event for you 🔎
One Doesn't Stop At One Murder is a panel event with writers @ellygriffiths @medwardsbooks & @LesleyjmThomson celebrating 101 years since Agatha Christie's first novel.
Tickets £6 👉 https://bit.ly/3ySNqun
There’s a big announcement about The Last Remains (Ruth 15) coming next Friday (1st July) and I want my nearest and dearest readers to be the first to hear, so sign up to the newsletter to be the first to know:

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Dear #worldatone @BBCRadio4 the railway workers are not ‘refusing to work’, they are on strike. There is a difference