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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.

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	The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 64,128 ratings — published 2009 — 96 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 42,708 ratings — published 2018 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway, #2) 3.93 avg rating — 41,423 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway, #3) 3.98 avg rating — 35,844 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway, #4) 3.92 avg rating — 30,166 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway, #5) 4.06 avg rating — 29,042 ratings — published 2012 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Outcast Dead (Ruth Galloway, #6) 4.16 avg rating — 26,794 ratings — published 2014 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ghost Fields (Ruth Galloway, #7) 4.11 avg rating — 25,028 ratings — published 2015 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur, #2) 3.93 avg rating — 25,200 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13) 4.27 avg rating — 22,927 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When she bought the cats her mother asked her straight out if they were 'baby substitutes'. 'No,' Ruth had answered, straight-faced. 'They're kittens. If I had a baby it would be a cat substitute.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Crossing Places

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“You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Janus Stone

tags: culture, culture-critique, theater

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“Maybe humans need animals to help them understand the world. Certainly it’s hard to see what else cats do for humans, aside from looking cute and killing the odd mouse.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Dying Fall

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Which more contemporary English mystery would you like to read with us in August? Please choose one from the list and vote here.

The Zig Zag Girl by Elly Griffiths

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Birthdays Can Be Murder by Joyce Cato

20 votes, 30.3%

The Twisted Root by Anne Perry

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