Лучшие книги Элли Гриффитс

Об этих руинах древнего святилища до сих пор идет дурная слава - когда-то друиды совершали здесь человеческие жертвоприношения. Времена служителей безжалостных кельтских богов давно отошли в область легенд, но... Вот уже две девочки бесследно исчезли возле святилища. Вот уже второй раз детектив Гарри Нельсон получает анонимное послание, автор которого утверждает, что они были принесены в жертву. Автор писем явно одержим идеей возрождения языческого культа? Но он ли - похититель и убийца? А если нет, тогда откуда у него информация? Нельсон вынужден прибегнуть к помощи известного археолога Рут Гэллоуэй, которая знает о древних ритуалах…

Под порогом старого ветхого дома строители обнаружили кости убитого ребенка. Что это - дело рук садиста? Или древний, жестокий ритуал жертвоприношения? Детектив Гарри Нельсон, ведущий расследование, снова обращается за помощью к известному археологу Рут Гэллоуэй - знатоку религиозных культов прошлого. Однако пока их единственная зацепка - рассказ настоятеля католического сиротского приюта, располагавшегося в доме много лет назад. Когда-то из этого приюта при загадочных обстоятельствах пропали двое детей - их следы так и не удалось обнаружить. Возможно, под порогом зарыли останки кого-то из этих детей? Но тогда - кто же убийца?

Клэр Кэссиди - учительница английского языка и литературы в школе Talgarth High, где ранее жил загадочный писатель, автор готических романов Р. М. Холланд. Клэр - его большая поклонница и даже пишет его биографию, пытаясь раскрыть старые семейные тайны. Внезапно лучшая подруга Клэр, Элла, погибает от руки убийцы, а рядом с телом обнаруживают таинственную записку. Более того: полиция подозревает, что Клэр знакома с убийцей. Героиня в растерянности обращается к своему лучшему другу и поверенному - личному дневнику. Каков же ее ужас, когда на одной из страниц она замечает чужие слова, написанные незнакомой рукой! Клэр оказывается втянута в…

После смерти её матери отец Джастис, королевский адвокат, отправляет девочку в слегка зловещую школу-пансион Хайбери-Хаус. С двенадцати лет она училась дома, и пойти в школу для неё – настоящее испытание. Но Джастис довольно быстро осваивается на новом месте и даже заводит друзей. Только она никак не может отделаться от мысли, что в школе скрывается тайна! У Джастис нюх сыщика, ведь её мама писала детективные романы, а папа – адвокат, поэтому, когда начинается снегопад и пансион оказывается отрезан от цивилизации, а в бассейне находят тело её учительницы мисс Томас, Джастис понимает, что только она способна разоблачить преступника!

Неугомонная девочка по имени Справедливость возвращается в Хайберри-Хаус на весенний семестр. А там, где она, там и новая тайна! Джастис получает от учителей ответственное задание – навещать раз в неделю пожилого слепого дедушку мистера Артура в домике у моря. Сначала эта идея не вызывает у Джастис особенного восторга. Но очень быстро девочка находит общий язык со стариком. Мистер Артур рассказывает Джастис интересные истории, она читает ему газету с последними новостями, а его прекрасная служанка миссис Кент угощает её вкусными пирогами. И всё бы хорошо, но утром за завтраком Джастис узнаёт, что ночью мистера Артура застрелили. Кому…

Jane Marple este o doamnă în vârstă din St Mary Mead care posedă un talent neobişnuit pentru a rezolva chiar şi cele mai complicate enigme. Acum, pentru prima dată în ultimii patruzeci şi cinci de ani, personajul iubit al Agathei Christie revine în paginile unei cărţi şi ne invită într-o călătorie plină de mistere. În St Mary Mead, o cină de Crăciun este întreruptă de oaspeţi neaşteptaţi; scena de pe Broadway din New York este pregătită pentru o improvizaţie periculoasă; prevestiri rele înconjoară o moarte prematură la bordul unui vas de croazieră către Hong Kong; un scriitor de bestsellere aflat în vacanţă în Italia este prins într-un…

When bones are unearthed at the foot of a north Norfolk cliff, forensics expert Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson are put on the case. The skeletons have lain there for decades, possibly since the war, and for all that time a hideous crime has been concealed.

When a body washes up on the beach, it becomes clear that someone wants the truth of the past to stay buried, and will go to any lengths to keep it that way. Can Ruth and Nelson uncover the truth in time to stop another murder?

Ruth Galloway uncovers the bones of what might be a notorious Victorian child murdress and a baby snatcher known as "The Childminder" threatens modern-day Norfolk in the latest irresistible mystery from Elly Griffiths.

Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway uncovers the bones of a Victorian murderess while a baby snatcher threatens modern-day Norfolk in this exciting new entry in a beloved series.
Every year a ceremony is held in Norwich for the bodies in the paupers' graves: the Service for the Outcast Dead. Ruth has a particular interest in this year's proceedings. Her recent dig at Norwich Castle turned up the body of the notorious Mother Hook, who was hanged in 1867 for the murder of five children. Now Ruth is the reluctant star of the TV series Women Who Kill, working alongside the program's alluring history expert, Professor Frank Barker.

DCI Harry Nelson is immersed in the case of three children found dead in their home. He is sure that the mother is responsible. Then another child is abducted and a kidnapper dubbed the Childminder claims responsibility. Are there two murderers afoot, or is the Childminder behind all the deaths? The team must race to find out-and the stakes couldn't be any higher when another child goes missing.

The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should not be suspicious. Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing out of the ordinary when Peggy’s caretaker, Natalka, begins to recount Peggy Smith’s passing. But Natalka had a reason to be at the police station: while clearing out Peggy’s flat, she noticed an unusual number of crime novels, all dedicated to Peggy. And each psychological thriller included a mysterious postscript: PS: for PS. When a gunman breaks into the flat to steal a book and its author is found dead shortly thereafter—Detective Kaur begins to think that perhaps there is no such thing as an…

Elizabeth II's coronation is looming, but the murder of their wartime commander, Colonel Cartwright, spoils the happy mood for DI Edgar Stephens and magician Max Mephisto. A playbill featuring another deceased comrade is found in Colonel Cartwright's possession, and a playing card, the ace of hearts: the blood card. The wartime connection and the suggestion of magic are enough for him to put Stephens and Mephisto on the case.

Edgar's investigation into the death of Brighton fortune-teller Madame Zabini is put on hold. Max is busy rehearsing for a spectacular Coronation Day variety show - and his television debut - so it's Edgar who is sent to New York, a land of plenty worlds away from still-rationed England. He's on the trail of a small-town mesmerist who may provide the key, but someone else silences him first. It's Sergeant Emma Holmes who finds the clue, buried in the files of the Zabini case, that leads them to an anarchist group intent on providing an explosive finale to Coronation Day.

Now it's up to Edgar, Max and Emma to foil the plot, and find out who it is who's been dealing the cards . . .

Chilling murder in the world of 1950s theatre – another case for DI Stephens and Max Mephisto.

Brighton, winter 1951.

Pantomime season is in full swing on the pier with Max Mephisto starring in Aladdin, but Max’s headlines have been stolen by the disappearance ’of two local children. When they are found dead in the snow, surrounded by sweets, it’s not long before the press nickname them ‘Hansel and Gretel’.

DI Edgar Stephens has plenty of leads to investigate. The girl, Annie, used to write gruesome plays based on the Grimms’ fairy tales. Does the clue lie in Annie’s unfinished – and rather disturbing – last script? Or might it lie with the eccentric theatricals who have assembled for the pantomime?

For Stan (aka the Great Diablo), who’s also appearing in Aladdin, the case raises more personal memories. Back before the Great War, he witnessed the murder of a young girl while he was starring in another show, an event which has eerie parallels to the current case.

Once again Edgar enlists Max’s help in penetrating the shadowy theatrical world that seems to hold the key. But with both distracted by their own personal problems, neither can afford to miss a trick. For Annie and her friend, time is running out…

Brighton, 1950.

When the body of a girl is found, cut into three, Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is reminded of a magic trick, the Zig Zag Girl.

The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, is an old friend of Edgar’s. They served together in the war as part of a shadowy unit called the Magic Men.

Max is still on the circuit, touring seaside towns in the company of ventriloquists, sword-swallowers and dancing girls. Changing times mean that variety is not what it once was, yet Max is reluctant to leave this world to help Edgar investigate. But when the dead girl turns out to be known to him, Max changes his mind.

Another death, another magic trick: Edgar and Max become convinced that the answer to the murders lies in their army days. When Edgar receives a letter warning of another ‘trick’, the Wolf Trap, he knows that they are all in danger…

Ruth’s old friend Dan Golding dies in a house fire. But before he died Dan wrote to Ruth telling her that he had made a ground-breaking archaeological discovery. Could this find be linked to his death and who are the sinister neo-Nazi group who were threatening Dan? Ruth makes the trip to Blackpool to investigate, wary of encroaching on DCI Harry Nelson’s home ground. Soon Ruth is embroiled in a mystery that involves the Pendle Witches, King Arthur and – scariest of all – Nelson’s mother.

There are forces at work in the town that that threaten all that Ruth holds dear. But, in the final showdown on Blackpool Pleasure Beach, it is Cathbad who faces the greatest danger of all.

It is Halloween night in King's Lynn, and Dr Ruth Galloway is attending a strange event at the local history museum - the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop. But what Ruth finds is the body of the museum's curator lying beside the coffin. Soon the museum's wealthy owner lies dead in his stables too. These two deaths could be from natural causes but when he is called in to investigate, DCI Harry Nelson isn't convinced, and it is only a matter of time before Ruth and Nelson cross paths once more. When threatening letters come to light, events take an even more sinister turn. But as Ruth's friends become involved, where will her loyalties lie? As her convictions are tested, she and Nelson must discover how Aboriginal skulls, drug smuggling and the mystery of The Dreaming may hold the answer to these deaths, and their own survival.

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Eine Leiche in einem vergrabenen Kampflugzeug – das hat die forensische Archäologin Ruth Galloway auch noch nicht gesehen. Laut DNA-Test handelt es sich bei dem Toten um Fred Blackstock, einen Aristokraten, der im Zweiten Weltkrieg über dem Ärmelkanal abgeschossen wurde und starb – jedoch in einem anderen Flugzeug! Die Ermittlungen führen die Polizei und Ruth zum Anwesen der Blackstocks. Als man auf deren Land menschliche Knochen entdeckt und bald darauf ein Mitglied der Familie attackiert wird, ahnt Ruth, dass die Blackstocks ein dunkles, jahrzehntealtes Geheimnis hüten, von dem eine tödliche Gefahr ausgeht. Kann sie das Schweigen brechen und den Killer aufhalten, ehe er erneut zuschlägt?

Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway.

She has a new job, home and partner, and is no longer North Norfolk police's resident forensic archaeologist. That is, until convicted murderer Amyas March offers to make DCI Nelson a deal. Nelson was always sure that March killed more women than he was charged with. Now March confirms this, and offers to show Nelson where the other bodies are buried - but only if Ruth will do the digging.

Curious, but wary, Ruth agrees. March tells Ruth that he killed four more women and that their bodies are buried near a village bordering the fens, said to be haunted by the Lantern Men, mysterious figures holding lights that lure travellers to their deaths.

Is Amyas March himself a lantern man, luring Ruth back to Norfolk? What is his plan, and why is she so crucial to it? And are the killings really over?

The fifth gripping Brighton-based mystery from the bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway series – a must-read for fans of Agatha Christie, cosy crime and TV series such as Grantchester and Midsomer Murders. One after another, young women go missing in Brighton, but who’s to say they didn’t leave of their own free choice?

Boiled human bones have been found in Norwich's web of underground tunnels. When Dr Ruth Galloway discovers they are recent - the boiling not the medieval curiosity she thought - DCI Nelson has a murder enquiry on his hands.

Meanwhile, DS Judy Johnson is investigating the disappearance of a local rough sleeper. The only trace of her is the rumour that she's gone 'underground'. This might be a figure of speech, but with the discovery of the bones and the rumours both Ruth and the police have heard of a vast network of old chalk-mining tunnels under King's Lynn, home to a vast community of rough sleepers, the clues point in only one direction. Local academic Martin Kellerman knows all about the tunnels and their history - but can his assertions of cannibalism and ritual killing possibly be true?

As the weather gets hotter, tensions rise. A local woman goes missing and the police are under attack. Ruth and Nelson must unravel the dark secrets of The Underground and discover just what gruesome secrets lurk at its heart - before it claims another victim.

A girl called Rhonda has vanished from her boarding school. Maybe she ran away, but there are disturbing similarities to the disappearance of two other young women - those too thought not to be suspicious.
But where are they?
Detective Edgar Stephens is under pressure to solve Rhonda's disappearance, but it is his wife Emma, herself a former detective now frustrated at being just a housewife, who concludes there might be a connection between the three cases.
Then the danger comes nearer home.
Edgar's friend, magician Max Mephisto, is reinventing himself as a movie star and trying not to envy his daughter Ruby's television fame. Little do either of them know how close they are to being drawn into the deadly web of abduction and murder about to trap them all.

A murderer strikes at a school reunion--but the students are no strangers to death-- in this propulsive, twisty thriller from the internationally bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries Is it possible to forget that you've committed a murder? When Cassie Fitzgerald was at school in the late 90s, she and her friends killed a fellow student. Almost twenty years later, Cassie is a happily married mother who loves her job--as a police officer. She closely guards the secret she has all but erased from her memory. One day her husband finally persuades her to go to a school reunion. Cassie catches up with her high-achieving old…