Across fifteen novels, Elly Griffiths made a forensic archaeologist on the Norfolk saltmarsh one of crime fiction's best-loved heroines. Ruth Galloway starts as a lecturer at the University of North Norfolk, pulled into police work almost by accident. By the later books she has tried a new life in Cambridge, returned as Head of Archaeology, and is fighting to save her department from closure. These three titles (books 5, 8 and 11) span the heart of the series. Perfect reading as the nights draw in.
Elly Griffiths, 'Dying Fall' - When archaeologist Dan Golding dies in a house fire, Ruth receives a letter he wrote before his death about a ground-breaking discovery, and the questions it raises soon lead to a sinister neo-Nazi group.
Elly Griffiths, 'The Woman in Blue' - Cathbad takes it in his stride when he sees a vision of the Virgin Mary in the graveyard beside the Walsingham cottage he is house-sitting; he is a druid, after all, and Walsingham has strong connections to Mary.
Elly Griffiths, 'The Stone Circle' - DCI Nelson is shaken by anonymous letters telling him to go to the stone circle and rescue the innocent buried there, arriving just as his mind is full of children with Michelle's baby due.
