The Locked Room

Elly Griffiths

Quercus £20 Griffiths’s Ruth Galloway series combines imaginative plotting, cleverly located in deepest Norfolk, with the everyday dramas of her cast of regular characters. So while The Locked Room features a compelling central mystery – a series of suspicious suicides – regular readers may be just as gripped by the horribly familiar crisis that erupts as the first wave of Covid threatens the life of one of Ruth’s nearest and dearest. This is Griffiths on top form.

John Williams