Norfolk: A photographic journey through the land of Ruth Galloway

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Her new series featuring Detective Harbinder Kaur began with The Stranger Diaries , which was a Richard and Judy book club pick and won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in the USA. But before he died Dan wrote to Ruth telling her that he had made a ground-breaking archaeological discovery. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Elly Griffiths is the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries and the Brighton Mysteries. As the book progresses from spring to winter, Norfolk countryside is shown in a vibrant array of changing colors.

She has a new job, home and partner, and is no longer North Norfolk police’s resident forensic archaeologist. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. A team of archaeologists, investigating coastal erosion on the north Norfolk coast, unearth six bodies buried at the foot of a cliff. From seascapes to farmlands, wetlands to woodlands, churches to cottages, this beautiful book captures Norfolk in all its glorious variety and is the perfect gift for any Elly Griffiths fan.We're always happy to answer any questions or queries you might have, please get in touch using one of the methods below. 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. Griffiths also talks about her family and how they influenced her writing, especially her Aunt Marjorie. A stunning companion to Elly Griffiths' beloved crime series, the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, and a photographic journey through magical No rfolk.

She has won the CWA Dagger in the Library, has been shortlisted five times for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for The Lantern Men . A murmuration is "a large group of birds, usually starlings, that fly all together and change direction together" swooping and swirling in the sky.

I'm a big fan of the Ruth Galloway books, and this book provides a beautifully photographed and evocative visual guide to the landscape of Norfolk which features so strongly in the series.

When Ruth’s friend Cathbad sees a vision of the Virgin Mary, in a white gown and blue cloak, in the graveyard next to the cottage he is house-sitting, he takes it in his stride. A beautiful word that I encountered while reading one of the Ruth Galloway books is also mentioned in this book with a stunning photograph of a "murmuration" of starlings, (p.Elly Griffiths does a superb job of pointing out the different places in Norfolk where the Galloway series took place and the accompanying photographs made me wish I were there. I don’t think the book would be of interest to non Ruth Galloway fans – other than it might draw you into a very enjoyable series, but for fans it is almost essential I would say. Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier – or are the bones much older?