Elly Griffiths at Jarrolds with some of her books Picture: DENISE BRADLEY
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The Night Hawks brings Elly Griffiths’ bestselling mix of whodunit and history back to her beloved Norfolk
The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths Picture: Quercus
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Treasure hunters find a body on a north Norfolk beach; a couple die at lonely Black Dog farm; rumours of a drowned asylum seeker, a demonic dog and murder swirl across the saltmarshes.
Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway is back in Norfolk – and unearthing stories of ancient weapons and legends running through a modern-day murder investigation.
Norfolk has haunted Elly Griffith’s novels from the beginning. She was walking with her archaeologist husband on Titchwell Marshes when she conjured the plot of her first Ruth Galloway novel from the story-sodden landscape. As he talked of how prehistoric people believed marshland was a sacred place, neither land nor sea, neither living nor dead, but