Elly Griffiths

DS Cassie Fitzgerald has a secret - one she's done her utmost to delete from her memory. In the 1990s, she and her schoolfriends killed a fellow pupil. Thirty years later, Cassie is happily married and loves her job as a police officer. Then her husband persuades her to go to a school reunion - and former pupil Garfield Rice is found dead, supposedly from a drug overdose. As Garfield was an eminent MP and the investigation is high profile, it's headed...

Magician Max Mephisto, now divorced and living in London, is on his way to visit daughter Ruby and her new-born baby when he is hailed by a voice from the past, fellow performer Ted English, aka the Great Deceiver. Ted's assistant, Cherry, has been found dead in her Brighton boarding house and he's convinced that he'll be accused of her murder. Max agrees to talk to his friend, Superintendent Edgar Stephens, who is investigating the case. What Max...

When a Norfolk farmer finds a World War Two plane, complete with skeleton, in a quarry, local archaeologists are called in. At first it all seems fairly straightforward - many American airmen were based in Norfolk and their empty hangers and airstrips, the so-called 'ghost fields', can be found all over East Anglia. But it's not that simple ...

Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway has excavated a body from the grounds of Norwich Castle, a forbidding edifice that was once a prison. She believes the body may be that of infamous Victorian murderess Jemima Green. Called Mother Hook for her claw-like hand, Jemima was hanged in 1867 for the murder of five children in her care. DCI Harry Nelson has no time for long-dead killers. Immersed in the case of three infants found dead, one after the other,...