The Killing Time: the second Ali Dawson Mystery from the No 1 bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway...

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Elly Griffiths

The Killing Time

Name: The Killing Time
Price: 55 AUD
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ISBN: 9781529433388

the second Ali Dawson Mystery from the No 1 bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries...

Elly Griffiths

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Hardback

Forthcoming
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Quercus Publishing
12 February 2026

Crime & Mystery; Thriller & suspense; Fantasy

Series: Ali Dawson

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'Warm and engaging characters and a wildly brilliant story wittily told' Ann Cleeves

'Ali Dawson is a delight - a detective you'll want to spend more time with' JP Delaney

Join Ali Dawson and her cold case team for another thrilling case.

Ali Dawson is a police detective who leads a unit that investigates cases so cold her team must travel to the distant past to solve them. But Ali and the team haven't been allowed to time-travel ever since their technical expert, Jones, got stuck in Victorian London, never to be seen again.

To distract herself from meaningless tasks, Ali decides to look into a present-day case - an apparent suicide of a young man who fell to his death from a high building. She believes the death is linked to a psychic medium called Barry Power, who convinced the boy he could fly. Ali goes to one of Power's shows where he claims to be in contact with Jones.

When Ali notices that evening that her cat, Terry, has gone missing, she decides to go back in time just long enough to prevent Terry from escaping through his open cat flap. A dangerous plan which backfires, and she finds herself once more in Victorian London, where she meets Jones, as well as Power, and the darkly mysterious Cain Templeton with whom Ali has unfinished business from her previous visit to the past . . .

'Elly Griffiths has done it again. Warm, witty and outrageously believable. I loved it' Sarah Hilary

'Here's a paradox: a thriller that is full of zest and joy' Nicci French

'Ali Dawson could be the most fun time-travelling detective since Dirk Gently' Chris Brookmyre

By: Elly Griffiths
Imprint: Quercus Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 555g
ISBN: 9781529433388
ISBN 10: 152943338X
Series: Ali Dawson
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 12 February 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Elly Griffiths is a multi-award-winning author and a No. 1 bestseller. She has written twenty-seven crime novels for adults; four for children, and a volume of short stories. Her books for adults include the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries, the Brighton Mysteries and the Detective Harbinder Kaur series, as well as The Frozen People, the first book in the Ali Dawson Mysteries. Elly's many accolades include the CWA Dagger in the Library, the Edgar Award, the Fingerprint Award for Crime Novel of the Year and the Theakston Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution Award, as well as being shortlisted multiple times for the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year Award. Elly has two grown-up children and lives near Brighton with her archaeologist husband and their cat, Pip.

Reviews for The Killing Time: the second Ali Dawson Mystery from the No 1 bestselling author of the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries

Elly Griffiths has done it again. The Killing Time is a deft and compelling detective story with the added frisson of time travel. Warm, witty and outrageously believable. I loved it * Sarah Hilary * Ali Dawson could be the most fun time-travelling detective since Dirk Gently * Chris Brookmyre * Warm and engaging characters and a wildly brilliant story wittily told; I loved this * Ann Cleeves * Joyously inventive, totally original, filled with warmth, humanity and fun. Ali Dawson is a delight - a detective you'll want to spend more time with * JP Delaney * Here's a paradox: a thriller that is full of zest and joy * Nicci French *