Elly Griffiths

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  • Bibliography:
    33 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2009
  • Latest Book:
    July 2025
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Full Series List in Order

A Magic Men Mystery

1 - The Zig Zag Girl (Sep-2015)
2 - Smoke and Mirrors (Oct-2016)
3 - The Blood Card (Sep-2017)
4 - The Vanishing Box (Oct-2018)
5 - Now You See Them (Dec-2019)
6 - The Midnight Hour (Nov-2021)

A Ruth Galloway Novel

1 - The Crossing Places (May-2009)
2 - The Janus Stone (Jan-2011)
3 - The House at Sea's End (Jan-2012)
3.5 - Ruth's First Christmas Tree (Dec-2012)
4 - A Dying Fall (Mar-2013)
5 - A Room Full of Bones (May-2013)
6 - The Outcast Dead (Mar-2014)
7 - The Ghost Fields (May-2015)
8 - The Woman in Blue (May-2016)
9 - The Chalk Pit (Feb-2017)
10 - The Dark Angel (May-2018)
11 - The Stone Circle (May-2019)
12 - The Lantern Men (Jul-2020)
13 - The Night Hawks (Feb-2021)
14 - The Locked Room (Jun-2022)
15 - The Last Remains (Jan-2023)

Book List in Order: 33 titles

  • The Crossing Places

    A Ruth Galloway Novel - 1

    The first entry in the acclaimed Ruth Galloway series follows the "captivating"* archaeologist as she investigates a child's bones found on a nearby beach, thought to be the remains of a little girl who went missing ten years before.Forensic archeolo...

  • The Janus Stone

    A Ruth Galloway Novel - 2

    It’s only been a few months since forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway found herself entangled in a missing-child case, barely escaping with her life. But when constructions workers demolishing a large old mansion to make way for a new development u...

  • The House at Sea's End

    A Ruth Galloway Novel - 3

    Forensic archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway is back, this time investigating a gruesome World War II war crime. Elly Griffiths's Ruth Galloway novels have been praised as "highly atmospheric" (New York Times Book Review), "remarkable" (Richmond Times-...

  • Ruth's First Christmas Tree

    A Ruth Galloway Novel - 3.5

    A spirited stocking stuffer for fans craving a taste of Ruth Galloway in their holiday season. It is three days before Christmas and a bitter wind is blowing across Norfolk.   Until her daughter was born, forensic archaeologist Ruth Ga...

  • A Dying Fall

    A Ruth Galloway Novel - 4

    Ruth Galloway is shocked when she learns that her old university friend Dan Golding has died tragically in a house fire. But the death takes on a sinister cast when Ruth receives a letter from Dan written just before he died. The letter tells of a...

  • A Room Full of Bones

    A Ruth Galloway Novel - 5

    When Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop, she finds the museum’s curator lying dead on the floor. Soon after, the museum’s wealthy owner is also found dead, in his stables. These...

  • The Outcast Dead

    A Ruth Galloway Novel - 6

    The service of the Outcast Dead is held annually in Norwich commemorating the bodies in the paupers' graves. This year's proceedings hold special interest for forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway, who has just unearthed the notorious Mother Hook, han...

  • The Ghost Fields

    A Ruth Galloway Novel - 7

    It’s a blazing hot summer in Norfolk when a construction crew unearths a downed American fighter plane from World War II with a body inside. Forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway determines that the skeleton couldn’t possibly be the pilot, and DNA ...

  • The Zig Zag Girl

    A Magic Men Mystery - 1

    Brighton, 1950. A girl is found cut into three pieces. Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is convinced the killer is mimicking a famous magic trick the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, is an old war friend of Edgar's. They serve...



  • The Woman in Blue

    A Ruth Galloway Novel - 8

    In the next Ruth Galloway mystery, a vision of the Virgin Mary foreshadows a string of cold-blooded murders, revealing a dark current of religious fanaticism in an old medieval town. Known as England’s Nazareth, the medieval town of Little Walsi...

  • Smoke and Mirrors

    A Magic Men Mystery - 2

    DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto hunt for a killer after two children are murdered in a tragic tableau of a very grim fairy tale. It’s Christmastime in Brighton, and the city is abuzz about a local production of Aladdin, starring...

  • The Chalk Pit

    A Ruth Galloway Novel - 9

    Ruth Galloway -- whom #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny calls “a captivating amateur sleuth” -- investigates a string of murders deep within the abandoned tunnels of Norwich in award-winning mystery. Winner of the CWA Dagger in th...

  • The Blood Card

    A Magic Men Mystery - 3

    In the third Magic Men mystery, the first partially set in America, a threat of mass violence looms over Elizabeth II’s coronation: Can DI Edgar Stephens and Max Mephisto crack the case and save the crown? Elizabeth II’s coronation is looming,...

  • The Dark Angel

    A Ruth Galloway Novel - 10

    In this highly atmospheric mystery, Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson investigate a murder in a medieval Italian town where dark secrets are buried as deep as bones. It’s not every day that you’re summoned to the Italian countryside on business, so...

  • The Vanishing Box

    A Magic Men Mystery - 4

    In a nail-biting hunt for a missing loved one, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto discover once again that the line between art, life, and death is all too easily blurred. It’s the holiday season and Max Mephisto and his daughter Ru...

  • The Stranger Diaries

    Death lies between the lines when the events of a dark story start coming true in this haunting modern gothic mystery, perfect for fans of Magpie Murders and The Lake House. Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher s...

  • 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 Gentle...

  • The Stone Circle

    A Ruth Galloway Novel - 11

    In a chilling entry to the award-winning Ruth Galloway series, she and DCI Nelson are haunted by a ghost from their past, just as their future lands on shaky ground. DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters. They are anonymous, yet remini...

  • Now You See Them

    A Magic Men Mystery - 5

    The fifth book in the Magic Men series, Now You See Them is a wild mystery with detective Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto, as they investigate a string of presumed kidnappings in the swinging 1960s. The new decade is going well for Ed...



  • The Smugglers' Secret

    Justice Jones, super-smart super-sleuth, is back for her second spine-tingling adventure! For fans of Robin Stevens, Katherine Woodfine and Enid Blyton.

    When Justice returns for spring term at Highbury House, it''s not long before murder is ...

  • The Lantern Men

    A Ruth Galloway Novel - 12

    Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway changed her life -- until a convicted killer tells her that four of his victims were never found, drawing her back to the place she left behind. Everything has changed for Ruth Galloway. She has a new job, home...

  • The Postscript Murders

    "This droll romp is a latter-day Miss Marple.”  -- Washington PostMurder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by internationally best-selling author Elly Griffiths, a literary mystery perfec...

  • The Night Hawks

    A Ruth Galloway Novel - 13

    There’s nothing Ruth Galloway hates more than amateur archaeologists, but when a group of them stumble upon Bronze Age artifacts alongside a dead body, she finds herself thrust into their midst -- and into the crosshairs of a string of murders circ...

  • The Ghost in the Garden

  • The Midnight Hour

    A Magic Men Mystery - 6

    The Brighton police force is on the hunt for another killer, but this time they have some competition -- a newly formed all-women’s private eye firm, led by none other than the police chief’s wife. Newly minted PI Emma Holmes and her partner Sam ...

  • The Locked Room

    A Ruth Galloway Novel - 14

    Pandemic lockdowns have Ruth Galloway feeling isolated from everyone but a new neighbor -- until Nelson comes calling, investigating a decades-long string of murder-suicides that’s looming ever closer. Three years after her late mother’s death...

  • The Spy at the Window

  • Bleeding Heart Yard

    A murderer strikes at a school reunion -- but the students are no strangers to death -- in this propulsive, twisty thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries Is it possible to forget that you’ve committe...

  • The Last Remains

    A Ruth Galloway Novel - 15

    The discovery of a missing woman’s bones force Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings for each other as they desperately work to exonerate one of their own in this not-to-be-missed Ruth Galloway mystery from USA Today bestselling author...



  • The Great Deceiver

  • The Last Word

    Words turn deadly with an unlikely detective duo on the case of a murdered obituary writer in this literary mystery from the internationally bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway series. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz.Natalk...

  • The Man in Black and Other Stories

    From the internationally bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries, an eclectic, thrilling collection of short stories, featuring many characters that readers have come to know and love.Elly Griffiths has always written short stories to exper...

  • The Frozen People

    “Fresh and exciting, with both humor and thrills, Griffiths’ first book in her new series knocks it out of the park!” -- Shari LapenaCold cases are a lot easier to solve when you can travel back in time to find new evidence. Unless, that is, yo...

Award-Winning Books by Elly Griffiths

The Crossing Places
2011 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Mary Higgins Clark Award
The Stranger Diaries
2020 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elly Griffiths has published 33 books.

The next book by Elly Griffiths, The Frozen People, will be published in July 2025.

The first book by Elly Griffiths, The Crossing Places, was published in May 2009.

Yes. Elly Griffiths has 2 series.
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