Naomi Alderman et al. Morrow, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-313605-2
In this disappointing anthology of authorized pastiches featuring Agatha Christie’s Jane Marple, some contributors fail to play fair with readers by not sharing the clues the elderly amateur sleuth relies on, and almost none of the tales effectively
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Elly Griffiths. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-544-75032-6
Mary Higgins Clark Award–winner Griffths’s uneven 10th Ruth Galloway mystery (after 2017’s The Chalk Pit) takes forensic archeologist Ruth and her daughter, Kate, to Castello degli Angeli, a little Italian town, to help colleague Angelo Morelli, who
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Elly Griffiths. Mariner, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-358-72648-7
The discovery of a human skeleton, “laid out like a Hallowe’en prop” behind a wall in a café undergoing renovations in 2021 Kings Lynn, England, drives Edgar winner Griffiths’s harrowing 15th mystery featuring forensic anthropologist Ruth Galloway (a
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Elly Griffiths. Mariner, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-328927-7
A reunion of the class of 1998 at London’s posh Manor Park school, “where trendy lefties send their kids,” provides the backdrop for this stunning standalone from Edgar winner Griffiths (The Postscript Murder). One attendee, Det. Sgt. Cassie...
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Elly Griffiths. Mariner, $27.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-358-67139-8
The Covid pandemic provides the backdrop for Edgar winner Griffiths’s meandering 14th mystery featuring forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway (after 2021’s The Night Hawks), set during the first few months of 2020. Ruth is asked to examine a skeleton
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Elly Griffiths. Mariner, $14.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-358-41863-4
In Edgar winner Griffiths's intricate sixth Brighton mystery (after 2019's Now You See Them), police constable Meg Connolly, Det. Insp. Bob Willis, and PIs Emma Holmes and Sam Collins look into the poisoning of theatrical impresario Bert Billington...
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Elly Griffiths. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-358-23705-1
Early in Edgar winner Griffith’s tightly plotted, well-paced 13th Ruth Galloway mystery (after 2020’s The Lantern Men), Ruth, a forensic anthropologist who has just been appointed the head of the archaeology department at the University of North...
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Elly Griffiths. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-358-41861-0
“We are coming for you” is the ominous message to a potential murder victim confronting Det. Sgt. Harbinder Kaur in Edgar winner Griffiths’s clever follow-up to 2019’s The Stranger Diaries. The death of elderly Peggy Smith in Shoreham-by-Sea,...
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Elly Griffiths. Mariner, $15.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-328-97159-3
Set in 1964, Mary Higgins Clark Award–winner Griffiths’s fine fifth Magic Men mystery (after 2017’s The Vanishing Box) finds Supt. Edgar Stephens and his colleague, Det. Insp. Bob Willis, looking into the disappearance of schoolgirl Rhonda Miles, an
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Elly Griffiths. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-1-328-97464-8
Mary Higgins Clark Award winner Griffiths’s enticing 11th mystery to feature forensic anthropologist Ruth Galloway and her married lover, Det. Chief Insp. Harry Nelson of the King’s Lynn CID (after 2018’s The Dark Angel), harkens back to their first
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Elly Griffiths. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-328-57785-6
In the wake of a divorce, Clare Cassidy, the heroine of this gripping standalone from Mary Higgins Clark Award winner Griffiths (the Ruth Galloway mysteries), accepts a job teaching English at Talgarth High, whose West Sussex campus includes the...
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Elly Griffiths. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (268p) ISBN 978-0-544-75029-6
At the start of Mary Higgins Clark Award–winner Griffiths’s solid fourth Magic Men mystery (after 2017’s The Blood Card), stage magician Max Mephisto and his daughter, Ruby French, are headlining a variety show in Brighton, England, during the 1953...
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Elly Griffiths, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $25 (303p) ISBN 978-0-547-22989-8
Griffiths's serviceable first mystery introduces archeologist Ruth Galloway, who leads a quiet life in a remote region of Norfolk, England, known as the Saltmarsh. When Det. Chief Insp. Harry Nelson asks for her expertise in identifying human...
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Elly Griffiths. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-544-75030-2
In Mary Higgins Clark Award–winner Griffiths’s uneven third Magic Men mystery (after 2016’s Smoke and Mirrors), magician Max Mephisto and Det. Insp. Edgar Stephens, who collaborated to misdirect German troops during WWII, reunite in 1953 London when
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Elly Griffiths. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-544-75031-9
The discovery of a cannibalized skeleton in a Norfolk underground tunnel catapults forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway into her engrossing ninth case (after 2016’s The Woman in Blue). When a homeless man reports a missing woman and then is stabbed...
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Elly Griffiths. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-544-52795-9
Set in Brighton, England, in 1951, Griffith’s captivating sequel to 2015’s Zig Zag Girl finds Det. Insp. Edgar Stephens embroiled in a grim holiday hunt for the murderer of two children. Like an unnerving scene from a fairy tale, a trail of candy in
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Elly Griffiths. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-544-41785-4
The discovery of a woman’s body dumped in a ditch near the village of Walsingham kick-starts Griffiths’s satisfying eighth Ruth Galloway mystery set in Norfolk, England (after 2015’s The Ghost Fields). Det. Chief Insp. Harry Nelson, who heads the...
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Elly Griffiths. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-544-52794-2
Mary Higgins Clark Award–winner Griffiths (The Crossing Places) launches a new series with this engaging mystery set in Brighton, England, in 1950. The Magic Men, a group of stage magicians who performed special missions during WWII, have since gone
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Elly Griffiths. Houghton Mifflin, $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-544-33014-6
The unearthing in Norfolk of a WWII-era U.S. plane, with its pilot in his seat and a bullet hole in his temple, propels British author Griffiths's well-crafted seventh mystery featuring forensic archeologist Ruth Galloway (after 2014's The Outcast...
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Elly Griffiths. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-547-79277-4
In Mary Higgins Clark Award–winner Griffiths’s competent sixth mystery featuring archeologist Ruth Galloway (after 2013’s A Dying Fall), Mark Gates, a TV researcher for a British documentary series called Women Who Kill, takes an interest in Ruth...
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Elly Griffiths. HMH, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-547-27120-0
Forensic anthropologist Dr. Galloway's fourth exploit, set in 2009 in Norfolk, England after The House at Sea's End, is another solid puzzle, matching crafty plotting with living and breathing characters readers will invest in. With her boss away,...
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Elly Griffiths. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-547-79816-5
Old bones and Anglo-Saxon culture combine with fresh murder and contemporary hate groups in Griffiths’s intricately plotted fifth Ruth Galloway mystery (after 2012’s A Room Full of Bones). Ruth, a forensic archeologist and teacher, learns of the...
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Elly Griffiths, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-547-23744-2
When a child's headless skeleton turns up during an archeological dig in Griffiths's compelling second Ruth Galloway mystery (after 2010's The Crossing Places), Ruth's determination that the bones are of recent origin spurs her special friend, Det....
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