However, I found the book infuriating as many of the photographs are unlabelled, or have vague descriptions such as "the Norfolk marshes". A stunning companion to Elly Griffiths' beloved crime series, the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, and a photographic journey through magical No rfolk. A stunning companion to Elly Griffiths’ beloved crime series, the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, and a photographic journey through magical No rfolk.

With stunning photography, it shows the best of Norfolk and its links and inspirations for Elly Griffith’s books and characters. Her new series featuring Detective Harbinder Kaur began with The Stranger Diaries, which was a Richard and Judy book club pick and won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in the USA. A beautiful word that I encountered while reading one of the Ruth Galloway books is also mentioned in this book with a stunning photograph of a "murmuration" of starlings, (p. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Norfolk, a land of peaceful broads, marshy fens, sprawling coastline and shady brecks, is the home of Dr Ruth Galloway, forensic archaeologist. 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. 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.

is famous for having a church, most of them complete with graveyards, for every week of the year - and a pub for every day. I'm a big fan of the Ruth Galloway books, and this book provides a beautifully photographed and evocative visual guide to the landscape of Norfolk which features so strongly in the series. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. We're always happy to answer any questions or queries you might have, please get in touch using one of the methods below.Biography: Elly Griffiths is the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries and the Brighton Mysteries. She has won the CWA Dagger in the Library, has been shortlisted five times for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for The Lantern Men .

A stunning companion to Elly Griffiths’ beloved crime series, the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, and a photographic journey through magical Norfolk.As the book progresses from spring to winter, Norfolk countryside is shown in a vibrant array of changing colors. DCI Nelson has been receiving threatening letters telling him to ‘go to the stone circle and rescue the innocent who is buried there’. Elly Griffiths does a superb job of pointing out the different places in Norfolk where the Galloway series took place and the accompanying photographs made me wish I were there.

But before he died Dan wrote to Ruth telling her that he had made a ground-breaking archaeological discovery. 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. A murmuration is "a large group of birds, usually starlings, that fly all together and change direction together" swooping and swirling in the sky. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.It was followed by The Postscript Murders, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and Bleeding Heart Yard. Besides being a visual delight, it affirms her wonderful descriptive skill — the landscapes and architecture are just as I (an American who’s never visited Norfolk) envisioned them while reading the series. I don’t think the book would be of interest to non Ruth Galloway fans – other than it might draw you into a very enjoyable series, but for fans it is almost essential I would say. When Ruth’s friend Cathbad sees a vision of the Virgin Mary, in a white gown and blue cloak, in the graveyard next to the cottage he is house-sitting, he takes it in his stride.