In an interview, she mentioned that Ruth Galloway is a combination of several strong women in Elly’s life, such as her two older sisters and her aunt. Initially, she intended for The Crossing Places to be a standalone novel, but after readers wanting more of Ruth, she continued with a second book, turning the Ruth Galloway mysteries into the internationally bestselling series it is today. However, the publisher wanted her to change Ellen to Elly as it sounded younger. The pen name comes from her grandmother who had the same name, Ellen Griffiths. When starting the dr Ruth Galloway series starting with The Crossing Places, the author published it under the pseudonym Elly Griffiths, a name that stuck for the rest of the series and her Stephens & Mephisto series, as well as some of her standalone novels. Before publishing her first novel, she did have several unpublished manuscripts which included that crime novel she wrote as a child, a story set in the publishing world, and a saga about Italian racing drivers. She didn’t begin writing until she was on maternity leave in 1998, at the age of 35. Later on, she moved on to work in publishing as an editorial director for children’s books at HarperCollins. The family lived in London until Domenica was 5, around the time when the y moved to Brighton. She started writing at the young age of 11 when he crafted her first novel, which was a murder mystery set in Rottingdean, close to the village she is living in. She attended local state schools, and later she went to King’s College in London where she majored in English.Īfter graduating from university, she started working in a library and then for a magazine.
The British crime mystery author Elly Griffiths was born in 1963, in London, as Domenica de Rosa. A Girl Called Justice, 2019 (children’s book).Now You See Them (Stephens & Mephisto #5), 2019.The Vanishing Box (Stephens & Mephisto #4), 2017.The Blood Card (Stephens & Mephisto #3), 2016.Smoke and Mirrors (Stephens & Mephisto #2), 2015.The Zig Zag Girl (Stephens & Mephisto #1), 2014.The Lantern Men (Ruth Galloway #12), 2020.The Stone Circle (Ruth Galloway #11), 2019.
A Room Full of Bones (Ruth Galloway #4), 2011.The House at Sea’s End (Ruth Galloway #3), 2011.The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway #2), 2010.The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway #1), 2009.
The Lantern Men, (Ruth Galloway #12), 2020
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