An Evening with Crime Writer Elly Griffiths

Acclaimed crime author Elly Griffiths worked in publishing before becoming a full-time writer. She is best known for her award-winning Dr Ruth Galloway series and The Brighton Mystery series. In 2018, Elly wrote her first standalone novel The Stranger Diaries. The novel was a top 10 paperback bestseller, selected for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club, as a summer 2019 Richard and Judy book and won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in the USA. Her second standalone The Postscript Murders followed, and her third standalone Bleeding Heart Yard was published to glowing reviews in October 2022. 2023 saw Elly Griffiths fly high in the book charts multiple times – for The Last Remains (4 weeks) and Bleeding Heart Yard PB (Hachette’s highest selling title around publication). She brought her award-winning Ruth Galloway Mystery series to a close after 15 years and published her first non-fiction pursuit with Elly Griffiths: Norfolk
2024 is looking to be shaping up to be another ground-breaking year for Elly, with The Last Word, her fourth standalone novel, out now; her first short stories collection coming in the summer and other exciting top-secret projects underway!

The Last Word, is a cosy, twisty mystery in which we are reintroduced to the characters made famous in her bestselling novel, The Postscript Murders. Natalka and Edwin are now running a detective agency in Shoreham, Sussex. Despite a steady stream of minor cases, Natalka is frustrated, longing for something juicy to come their way. Then a murder case arrives on their doorstep - local writer Melody Chambers is found dead, and her family are convinced it’s foul play. The trail leads the detectives to a slightly sinister writers' retreat and when another writer is found dead, Edwin thinks that the clue lies in the words. Seeking professional help, the amateur investigators turn to their friend, detective Harbinder Kaur, to find that they have stumbled on a plot that is stranger than fiction.