Bestselling author Elly Griffiths is set to host a talk in Carlisle early next month.

Join Bookends at The Old Fire Station in Carlisle on the evening of Wednesday, February 7 with the bestselling and hugely popular Elly Griffiths, author of the Dr Ruth Galloway mysteries, the Brighton mysteries, the Justice series and several standalone novels.

Elly will discuss all things crime writing as well as her latest book ‘The Last Word’ – a twisty, standalone mystery that reintroduces the glorious characters from the bestselling ‘The Postscript Murders’ which was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award.

Join them in conversation with Elly as they find out more about ‘The Last Word’, her fourth standalone novel and discover more about her exciting plans for 2024. The event will be an in-conversation style interview followed by the opportunity to ask your own questions of the bestselling author.

Natalka from Ukraine has quit her job as a carer and joined up with retiree, Edwin, to run a detective agency on England’s south coast. Despite a steady stream of minor cases, Natalka is frustrated, longing for a big juicy investigation such as murder to come the agency’s way.

She is now living with dreamer, Benedict, who continues to run his coffee shack. Life gets complicated when her Ukrainian mother, Viktoria, joins them from her war-torn country – three’s a crowd. Viktoria invades the tiny flat, cooking borscht and cleaning things that are already clean. To add to Natalka’s irritation, Benedict and Viktoria get on brilliantly.

Edwin is a big reader of obituaries, so when a local obit writer, Dan Haynes, dies, Edwin decides to look further, only to discover a series of unexpected deaths. Are the clues in the obits themselves? Edwin decides to write an obit to see what clues it throws up. Then he disappears.

The chase to find him takes the team to London and back to the south coast, where the solution lies remarkably close to home.

Tickets are £10 each and redeemable against the purchase of the book (RRP £22.00) at the event, which will start at 7.30pm.