Continuing my run of Elly Griffiths novels, this is the first in the Harbinder Kaur series.  Harbinder is a detective near Brighton, UK who is brought in to investigate when a schoolteacher is murdered at Harbinder’s former school.  The other main protagonist, Clare, is a fellow teacher and friend of the murdered woman.  More violence occurs, which seems to center around Clare and a Victorian short story known as The Stranger by the fictional R.M.Holland. What sets this book apart was the way it integrated […]

Continued my read of all the works of Elly Griffiths with Bleeding Heart Yard.  This book is set in London with three focal characters, DI Harbinder Kaur, DS Cassie Fitzherbert and Anna Vance.  Harbinder is investigating the murder of an MP which occurred at a school reunion; both Cassie and Anna were friends and classmates of the murder victim.  It quickly becomes apparent that there may be a connection to the death of another classmate just when GCSE exams had ended. Griffiths excels at writing […]

The Midnight Hour is book 6 in a series by Elly Griffiths, but the first that I have read.  I read it since I adore her Ruth Galloway series but have finished it.  Even though I started in the middle of this series, I don’t think it matters that much, it worked fine as a stand alone.  The Midnight Hour is set in 1960s Brighton, UK, where a theatrical producer has died and his retired-actress wife is implicated in his death.  The story primarily follows […]

Continuing my read of Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway series with The Locked Room, the most recent book, published in 2022.  It starts early in 2020 (we all know what’s about to happen) with life continuing as normal along the marshes of Norfolk, and Ruth making a trip to London to clear out some of her deceased mother’s belongings.  Among them, she finds a picture of her house taken several years before she was born and with the cryptic notation ‘Dawn, 1963’ on the back in […]