This month I’m looking back at my review of The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths which I first posted on 8 June 2010. It’s the first book in the Ruth Galloway Mystery series.
Here’s the first paragraph::
When I started reading The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths I nearly didn’t bother carrying on because it’s written in the present tense, but I’m glad I did because I did enjoy it and at times didn’t even notice the tense. This is a debut crime fiction novel, even though it’s not the author’s first book.
Click here to read my full review
Elly Griffiths was born in London in 1963. Her real name is Domenica de Rosa and she’s written four books under that name. Her first crime novel The Crossing Places is set on the Norfolk coast where she spent holidays as a child and where her aunt still lives. Her interest in archaeology comes from her husband, Andrew, who gave up his city job to retrain as an archaeologist. She lives in Brighton, on the south coast of England, with her husband and two children.
She has written 13 books in the Ruth Galloway Mystery series. The 14th book, The Locked Room is due to be published in February 2022.
The next Throwback Thursday post is scheduled for 3 July 2021.
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It is always interesting, isn’t it, Margaret, to look back at one’s old reviews. I think it gives an interesting retrospective. And I’m glad you mentioned The Crossing Places. I agree with you in general about the use of the present tense. I don’t care for it at all, actually. But somehow, that doesn’t get in the way of my enjoyment of that series.
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