Tag: Elly Griffiths

  • Joy and Sadness – Conflicting Emotions

    The joy is that I came home to find a new book waiting for me: The Last Remains by Elly Griffiths. She is one of my favourite modern authors and she has her own shelf in one of my bookcases. The sadness is that I know this is the last book in the series about […]

  • Frabjous day, callooh, callay

    It is indeed a frabjous day because waiting for me when I arrived home was a new Elly Griffiths book: Bleeding Heart Yard. This is the third story about the detective Harbinder Kaur and I am hugely looking forward to reading it. The hardback edition was out last year but I decided to wait for […]

  • The Stranger Diaries and The Postscript Murders

    I have written before about Doctor Ruth Galloway, the most delightful and beautifully written character in the detective novels by Elly Griffiths, all set on the Norfolk coast. I have talked to several others who have read all the books and love them as I do. (I think there is a carefully defined difference between […]

  • September 2021

    If you ever choose to read the Sunday Times, you might be familiar with the columnist India Knight (once expelled from Wycombe Abbey School, but that is irrelevant). Sounds fun to me to be allowed to write about what ever you wish, as she does, often in a very opinionated manner. Or, maybe not, there […]

  • October 2022

    It was a wet, cold Sunday afternoon in January and presumably my homework was done. I was looking for something to read and scanned along my parents’ rather meagre bookshelves. Picking something quite at random I retired to a corner of the sofa, as near as possible to the coal fire, and began. In no […]