CrimeFest 2023: Featured Guest Elly Griffiths

 Saturday 13 May 2023
12:30 - 13:20

Ellly Griffiths

 

 Elly Griffiths is the author of a series of crime novels set in England’s Norfolk County and featuring forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway. The first in the series, Crossing Places, earned a good deal of praise both in Griffiths’ native country, England, and in the U.S. The Literary Review termed it “a cleverly plotted and extremely interesting first novel,
highly recommended. 
Since then, Elly has written fifteen further novels in the series.  Recently she has written a second series set in Brighton in the 1950’s featuring magician Max Mephisto and DI Stephens. There are six books in the new series, and a seventh scheduled to be published October 2023.
She has also written three stand alone mysteries.

www.ellygriffiths.co.uk

Interviewed by Barry Forshaw

Barry Forshaw is a leading expert on crime fiction and film. He is the Financial Times’ crime critic, and his books include Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide, the Keating Award-winning Brit Noir (plus Nordic, American, Euro and Historical Noir). Other work includes British Gothic Cinema, Simenon, British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia (also a Keating winner), Death in a Cold Climate, Sex and Film and Italian Cinema. He edits Crime Time

(www.crimetime.co.uk) and provides Blu-ray extras.