Elly Griffiths

ELLY GRIFFITHS er den bestselgende forfatteren av den populære britiske krimserien med rettsarkeologen Ruth Galloway og politioverbetjent Harry Nelson. Serien er kjent for spenning, britisk sjarm, humor og et herlig persongalleri. Den er elsket og hyllet over hele verden, og har solgt over 450 000 bøker i Danmark alene. Nå kommer serien på norsk – og det er bare å glede seg, for det er 15 titler i Ruth Galloway-serien.Elly Griffiths er en USA Today og Sunday Times Top Ten bestselgende forfatter og vinner av CWA Dagger Award og Mary Higgins Clark Award. I tillegg til Ruth Galloway-serien, har Griffiths skrevet Brighton-serien, samt standalone-romanene, The Stranger Diaries og The Postscript Murders. Hun bor i Brighton i England.\n\n«Ruth Galloway er en bemerkelsesverdig, herlig karakter. Et must for alle krim-fans.» Associated Press\n\nOverview alt om Elly Griffiths:\n\n \n\nElly Griffiths is among the top 20 most borrowed authors from UK libraries, and the cumulative sales of all her books in the UK sits at 4 million. In the US, the Ruth Galloway series has sold over a million copies, with many US fans for all the other Elly Griffiths books too. In ebook and audio, Elly Griffiths titles are regularly #1 in the Kindle and Audible charts on Amazon.\n\nBut it’s not just in the English language that Ruth has fans: she has become an honorary Scandi-Crime heroine, with the series a major bestseller in Sweden, Denmark and Finland. In 2025, Elly was awarded the Finnish Whodunnit Society's Foreign Crime Writer Award.\n\nTranslation rights in her books have been sold in 28 languages with over 5 million copies sold worldwide. \n\nThe Ruth Galloway Series\n\nSince the Ruth Galloway series launched with The Crossing Places in 2009, it has steadily grown its fanbase to become the bestselling phenomenon it is today in both the UK and America. The penultimate book in the series, The Locked Room, went straight into the Sunday Times hardback bestseller chart at #1, with UK paperback sales of each title now regularly hitting the 100k+ mark. The Last Remains, the final book in the series was a Sunday Times Bestseller, #2 in the UK paperback bestseller list. Translation rights have been sold in 20 languages.\n\n \n\nThe Frozen People\n\nThe Frozen People became an instant Sunday Times Bestseller in the UK, reaching #5 in its first week.\n\nTranslation rights in this brand-new series have now been sold in Denmark, Finland, Germany and Sweden. On publication in Denmark the book went straight to #1.\n\nBook 2 is forthcoming from Quercus in Spring 2026.\n\nElly’s other books\n\nTranslation rights in Elly Griffith’s Harbinder Kauer series have been sold in 15 languages.\n\nThe Brighton Mysteries series has been translated into Finnish and Dutch.\n\nThe Justice Jones children’s mystery series has been published in Denmark, Italy, Russia and Spain.\n\nElly Griffiths has also written 4 novels under her real name, Domenica de Rosa, which have been published in Denmark, Norway, Portugal and Russia.