Which author wrote the 'Ruth Galloway' series?

Elly Griffiths wrote the Ruth Galloway series.

The series stars Ruth Galloway, a forensic archaeologist who lives on the Norfolk coast and teaches at the fictional University of North Norfolk. Her specialist knowledge of bones, burial sites and ancient remains repeatedly brings her into investigations led by Detective Chief Inspector Harry Nelson.

The first novel, The Crossing Places, was published in 2009. Griffiths developed Ruth partly from her husband’s experience training as an archaeologist and from her aunt’s life on the Norfolk coast. That setting gives the books a distinctive mix of archaeology, local history, folklore and contemporary crime.

Elly Griffiths is a pen name: the author was born Domenica de Rosa. Readers sometimes confuse Ruth Galloway with series by other British crime writers, such as Ann Cleeves or Val McDermid, but neither created this forensic archaeologist. Griffiths also writes the Stephens and Mephisto mysteries and the Harbinder Kaur series.