

When she started becoming interested in digging up bones and ancient artifacts is still a mystery to many. Griffith’s alter ego, Ruth Galloway is head of the archaeology department at North Norfolk. Mother Hook was a notorious murderess who would kill babies and sell their bodies to the Resurrection Men. She finds out that she has uncovered the remains of Mother Hook.

Galloway finds even more bones that were buried in the ground under a building that used to be a prison. Her latest book, The Outcast Dead was published on January 2014. Taking this information, Galloway and Nelson are off once again to solve the crime committed.Įlly Griffiths has many novels she has written. Father Hennessey tells them that two children actually went missing about 40-years ago from the home. They start tracking down the operator of the children’s home, Father Hennessey who is a Catholic Priest.

They soon find out that where the construction work is going on, they are demolishing an abandoned house, it used to be a children’s home. Ruth Galloway and Detective Nelson find them once again, right in the middle of another missing child case when a construction worker unearths remains of yet another child. It is number two in the series after The Crossing Places. The Janus Stone novel is another Ruth Galloway novel. Although they are not the remains of the missing little girl, Galloway is intrigued by the letters and the details about the girl’s disappearance and starts helping Detective Nelson to either find her dead or alive. However, Ruth Galloway soon finds out these remains are actually two-thousand-years-old. These weird letters are about the little girl and about sacrifice and rituals. This little girl has been missing for ten years and since her disappearance, Detective Nelson has been receiving weird letters. When a child’s bones are found on a beach, the Detective Chief Inspector Harry Nelson asks Ruth Galloway for help to determine if these bones are the final remains of a missing little girl by the name of Lucy Downey. Although The Crossing Places is not her first novel, it is her very first crime novel.Ī child comes up missing.

When Elly is not digging up bones, she is writing her beloved novels. Elly has two children with her husband and they live near Brighton. She gets her inspiration from her husband and herself, who are both archaeologists, and her aunt who used to fill her head with many tales when she was a little girl. Elly Griffiths is a novelist with several books under her name.
