Elly Griffiths
““Galloway now seems as real as Marple and Morse.””
© Heather Chuter
Elly Griffiths is the pen name of Domenica de Rosa.
Domenica was born in London, studied English at King’s College London and worked in publishing before writing her first novel, The Italian Quarter. Three books followed before she turned to crime with The Crossing Places and was advised to get a ‘crime name’. As Elly Griffiths (her grandmother’s name) she is the author of the bestselling Dr Ruth Galloway series, the Brighton Mysteries series and four stand-alone crime novels in which detective Harbinder Kaur makes an appearance. She won the 2020 Edgar Award for The Stranger Diaries (the first of the stand-alones) and, in 2016, was awarded the CWA Dagger in The Library. Elly also writes the Justice Jones mystery series for children.
She lives near Brighton with her archaeologist husband, Andy, and has two grown-up children and a cat called Pip.
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