Norfolk: A photographic journey through the land of Ruth Galloway

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Griffiths also talks about her family and how they influenced her writing, especially her Aunt Marjorie. She has a new job, home and partner, and is no longer North Norfolk police’s resident forensic archaeologist.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.A place steeped in folklore and history, visibly shaped by the lives of those who have come before, it has become an integral character in Elly Griffiths’ bestselling crime series. Ruth is in London clearing out her mother’s belongings when she makes a surprising discovery: a photograph of her Norfolk cottage taken before Ruth lived there. Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway novels take for their inspiration Elly's husband, who gave up a city job to train as an archaeologist, and her aunt who lives on the Norfolk coast and who filled her niece's head with the myths and legends of that area. But before he died Dan wrote to Ruth telling her that he had made a ground-breaking archaeological discovery.

With wonderful photos by Justin Minns we are taken on a trip through Norfolk to places that we imagined in all the Ruth books with excerpts explaining how they played a part in those stories. The tenth book in the Dr Ruth Galloway series sees Ruth wanting to escape from Norfolk and from her complicated relationship with DCI Nelson, at least for a while. It was followed by The Postscript Murders , shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and Bleeding Heart Yard . A murmuration is "a large group of birds, usually starlings, that fly all together and change direction together" swooping and swirling in the sky. With stunning photography, it shows the best of Norfolk and its links and inspirations for Elly Griffith’s books and characters.From seascapes to farmlands, wetlands to woodlands, churches to cottages, this beautiful book captures Norfolk in all its glorious variety and is the perfect gift for any Elly Griffiths fan. Historical crimes involving a Victorian child killer may hold the key to several contemporary deaths in this macabre outing for Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist. A place steeped in folklore and history, visibly shaped by the lives of those who have come before, it has become an integral character in Elly Griffiths' bestselling crime series. We're always happy to answer any questions or queries you might have, please get in touch using one of the methods below. Are they the remains of a local girl who disappeared ten years earlier – or are the bones much older?