An Evening with Elly Griffiths: Step into another Thrilling Case
Join us in conversation with award-winning crime author Elly Griffiths, as she celebrates the launch of another thrilling case for Ali Dawson and her cold case team.
Elly is the internationally bestselling author of the beloved Dr Ruth Galloway stories, the gripping Brighton Mysteries and the Sunday Times bestseller The Frozen People. Known for her sharp plotting, richly drawn characters and sense of place. Elly will be joining us the week her new book The Killing Time is published.
Elly will be here in Farsley, at The Old Woollen, sharing behind the scenes insights into the new story, the characters and her writing process, as well as answering all your burning questions and signing your books.
‘A new book by Elly Griffiths is always a cause of delight, and this series promises to broaden our horizons. Ali Dawson will capture readers’ hearts the way Ruth Galloway did’ – Mick Herron
About the Book
Ali Dawson is a police detective who leads a unit that investigates cases so cold her team must travel to the distant past to solve them. But Ali and the team haven’t been allowed to time-travel ever since their technical expert, Jones, got stuck in Victorian London, never to be seen again.
To distract herself from meaningless tasks, Ali decides to look into a present-day case – an apparent suicide of a young man who fell to his death from a high building. She believes the death is linked to a psychic medium called Barry Power, who convinced the boy he could fly. Ali goes to one of Power’s shows where he claims to be in contact with Jones.
When Ali notices that evening that her cat, Terry, has gone missing, she decides to go back in time just long enough to prevent Terry from escaping through his open cat flap. A dangerous plan which backfires, and she finds herself once more in Victorian London, where she meets Jones, as well as Power, and the darkly mysterious Cain Templeton with whom Ali has unfinished business from her previous visit to the past . . .
About the Author
Elly Griffiths was born in London. She read English at King’s College, London, and worked in publishing for many years. She has won the CWA Dagger in the Library, has been shortlisted five times for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for The Lantern Men. Her series featuring Detective Harbinder Kaur began with The Stranger Diaries, which was a Richard and Judy book club pick and won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in the USA.
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