{"title":"Elly Griffiths","description":"Elly Griffiths is the author of the Ruth Galloway and Brighton mystery series, as well as the standalone novels The Stranger Diaries, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel; The Postscript Murders; and Bleeding Heart Yard. She is the recipient of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award and the Mary Higgins Clark Award. She lives in Brighton, England.","products":[{"product_id":"the-frozen-people-a-mystery-hardcover","title":"The Frozen People: A Mystery - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A pleasure from finish to start.\" --Anthony Horowitz \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Fresh and exciting, with both humor and thrills, Griffiths' first book in her new series knocks it out of the park!\" --Shari Lapena \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome murders can't be solved in just one lifetime. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAli Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old, they're frozen--or so their inside joke goes. Nobody knows that her team has a secret: they can travel back in time to look for evidence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe latest assignment sees Ali venture back farther than they have dared before: to 1850s London to clear the name of Cain Templeton, an eccentric patron of the arts. Rumor has it that Cain is part of a sinister group called The Collectors. Ali arrives in the Victorian era to another dead woman at her feet and far too many unanswered questions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the clock counts down, Ali becomes more entangled in the mystery, yet danger lurks around every corner. She soon finds herself trapped, unable to make her way back to her beloved son, Finn, who is battling his own accusations in the present day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCould the two cases be connected? In a race through and against time, Ali must find out before it's too late.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101199372511,"sku":"9780593834374","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/eEmlbWDsDd9780593834374.webp?v=1781068454"},{"product_id":"the-man-in-black-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"The Man in Black: And Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCATION 2025 DAGGER AWARDS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the internationally bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway Mysteries, an eclectic, thrilling collection of short stories, featuring many characters that readers have come to know and love.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElly Griffiths has always written short stories to experiment with different voices and genres as well as to explore what some of her fictional creations such as Ruth Galloway, Harbinder Kaur, and Max Mephisto might have done outside of the novels.\u003cem\u003e The Man in Black\u003c\/em\u003e gathers these bite-sized tales all together in one splendid volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are ghost stories, cozy mysteries, tales of psychological suspense, and poignant vignettes of love and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the title story, Ruth Galloway crosses paths with a mysterious man in a bookstore, setting in motion a rescue mission that hinges on the legends and lore of Norfolk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking into the past, a young magician in 1920s Leeds wonders just what happened to his missing landlady in \"Max Mephisto and the Disappearing Act.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"Justice Jones and the Etherphone,\" a witty girl detective investigates the dire prediction of a fortune teller in dreary postwar London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA flashback in time reveals Harbinder Kaur as a Detective Sergeant surviving her first day on the job at Shoreham DCI.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo celebrate the holidays, Ruth gets her very first Christmas tree, and her beloved cat narrates his own seasonal story in \"Flint's Fireside Tale.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd readers can armchair travel with stories set on the Amalfi Coast, in Capri, and in Egypt as Ruth and DCI Nelson experience their very own version of \u003cem\u003eDeath on the Nile.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Man in Black\u003c\/em\u003e illustrates the breadth and variety of Elly Griffiths's talent for blood-chilling, page-turning stories all with her trademark humor and heart. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101201338591,"sku":"9780063289345","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/U87DXQF1B99780063289345.webp?v=1781068458"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/elly-griffiths.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}