Elly Griffiths is the crime-writing name of British author Domenica de Rosa, best known for the Dr Ruth Galloway mysteries. Beginning with The Crossing Places, the series follows a forensic archaeologist in Norfolk whose work with bones, burial sites,... old stories, and police investigations gives the books a distinctive blend of archaeology, atmosphere, and modern crime. Griffiths has also written the Brighton Mysteries, the Harbinder Kaur novels, the Ali Dawson mysteries, and the children’s Justice Jones books, showing a range that moves across historical mystery, literary suspense, time-bending investigation, and younger-reader detective fiction. Her appeal lies in strong settings, intelligent plotting, lived-in characters, and mysteries where the past is never safely buried.
