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. In this book Elly takes us through a year in the Norfolk landscape, featuring the fascinating locations that have inspired her series and her writing.

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. It was followed by The Postscript Murders, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and Bleeding Heart Yard. In the meantime, when I read the Ruth Galloway series again, this beautiful book will be by my side! With stunning photography, it shows the best of Norfolk and its links and inspirations for Elly Griffith’s books and characters.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. Surprisingly high quality book – combing some vibrant colour photography from Justin Minns (a Suffolk based landscape photographer) with commentary from Elly Griffiths which links to the landscape and settings of the Ruth Galloway series (with many of the pictures being captioned with quotes from the books). is famous for having a church, most of them complete with graveyards, for every week of the year - and a pub for every day.

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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. A murmuration is "a large group of birds, usually starlings, that fly all together and change direction together" swooping and swirling in the sky. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. She has a new job, home and partner, and is no longer North Norfolk police’s resident forensic archaeologist.

We were crossing Titchwell Marsh in North Norfolk when Andy (an archaeologist) mentioned that prehistoric people thought that marshland was sacred ground. Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier – or are the bones much older? Elly Griffiths is the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries and the Brighton Mysteries.

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. There is a map of Norfolk in the front and back inside covers pointing out different places in the Ruth Galloway books, as well as a comprehensive index which also includes the books. 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.A stunning companion to Elly Griffiths' beloved crime series, the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, and a photographic journey through magical No rfolk.

Besides being a visual delight, it affirms her wonderful descriptive skill — the landscapes and architecture are just as I (an American who’s never visited Norfolk) envisioned them while reading the series. We're always happy to answer any questions or queries you might have, please get in touch using one of the methods below.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. With wonderful photos by Justin Minns we are taken on a trip through Norfolk to places that we imagined in all the Ruth books with excerpts explaining how they played a part in those stories.