Elly Griffiths
Born	Domenica de Rosa (1963-08-17)August 17, 1963 London, England
Pen name	Elly Griffiths
Occupation	Author
Genre	Crime fiction,Romance,Children's fiction
Years active	2000s-present
Notable works	Ruth Galloway series,Stephens and Mephisto series

Domenica de Rosa^[1] (born 17 August 1963),^[2] known by herpen nameElly Griffiths, is a British crime novelist. She has written three series as Griffiths, one featuring Ruth Galloway, one featuring Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens and Max Mephisto, and the Harbinder Kaur series.

Griffiths was born inLondon. After reading English atKing's College London, she worked in publishing for many years.^[3]

Griffiths' first series features as a main characterforensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway, who lives in a remote seaside cottage nearKing's Lynn inNorfolk and teaches at the University of North Norfolk. This character was inspired by Griffiths' husband, who gave up a city job to train as an archaeologist,^[4] and her aunt, "who lives on the Norfolk coast and filled her niece's head with the myths and legends of that area". Griffiths released the first book in this series,The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway #1), in 2009.^[5]

Griffiths' second series, set in 1950sBrighton, focuses on the duo of Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens and magician Max Mephisto. Griffiths released the first book in this series,The Zig Zag Girl, in 2014.^[6]

In 2017, Griffiths was the Programming Chair for theTheakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, part of theHarrogate International Festivals portfolio.^[7]

Griffiths won the 2020Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel forThe Stranger Diaries.^[8] In 2021,The Postscript Murders was shortlisted in theGold Dagger category at theCrime Writers' Association Awards.^[9]

• The Crossing Places(Ruth Galloway, No.1).Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2009.ISBN 978-0547229898.^[10][11]
• The Janus Stone(Ruth Galloway, No.2).Quercus Publishing. 2010.ISBN 978-1849161589.^[12][13]
• The House at Sea's End(Ruth Galloway, No.3).Quercus Publishing. 2010.ISBN 978-1849163675.^[14][15]
• A Room Full of Bones(Ruth Galloway, No.4).Quercus Publishing. 2012.ISBN 978-1849163668.^[16]
• Ruth's First Christmas Tree(Ruth Galloway, #4.5).Quercus Publishing. 2012.
• A Dying Fall(Ruth Galloway, No.5).Quercus Publishing. 2013.ISBN 978-0857388896.^[17]
• The Outcast Dead(Ruth Galloway, No.6).Quercus Publishing. 2014.ISBN 978-0857388902.
• The Ghost Fields(Ruth Galloway, No.7).Quercus Publishing. 2015.ISBN 978-1848663305.^[18]
• The Woman in Blue(Ruth Galloway, No.8).Quercus Publishing. 2016.ISBN 978-0544417854.
• The Chalk Pit(Ruth Galloway, No.9).Quercus Publishing. 2017.ISBN 978-1784296599.^[19]
• The Dark Angel(Ruth Galloway, No.10).Quercus Publishing. 2018.ISBN 978-1784296636.
• The Stone Circle(Ruth Galloway, No.11).Quercus Publishing. 2019.ISBN 978-1786487308.
• The Lantern Men(Ruth Galloway, No.12).Quercus Publishing. 2020.ISBN 978-1787477537.
• The Night Hawks(Ruth Galloway, No.13).Quercus Publishing. 2021.ISBN 978-1787477803.
• The Locked Room(Ruth Galloway, No.14).Quercus Publishing. 2022.ISBN 978-1529409659.
• The Last Remains(Ruth Galloway, No.15).Quercus Publishing. 2023.ISBN 978-1529409710.

• 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)

• The Stranger Diaries (2018)
• The Postscript Murders (2020)^[20]
• Bleeding Heart Yard (2022)
• The Last Word (January 2024)

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

• The Frozen People (2025)

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

• "Official website".EllyGriffiths.co.uk.
• "Elly Griffiths".Quercus Books. 17 January 2019.

• 1963 births
• Living people
• Alumni of King's College London
• 21st-century British novelists
• 21st-century British women novelists
• Women crime fiction writers
• Writers from London
• 21st-century pseudonymous writers
• Pseudonymous women writers
• British crime fiction writers
• Edgar Award winners

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