{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6087d3aca4a81031ba098a59/6a3161cb780d0f7579b41f2f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"SUMMER SPECIAL: Elly Griffiths on The Killing Time, Time Travel & Las Vegas Hell","description":"<p>It's the Quick Book Reviews summer special, and Philippa is joined by the wonderful <strong>Elly Griffiths</strong> — bestselling author of the Ruth Galloway series — to talk holidays, her latest novel <em>The Killing Time</em>, and what's coming next in the world of time-travelling detective Ali Dawson.</p><p><strong>☀️ Holiday Chat</strong></p><p>Elly is a self-confessed good traveller — half Italian, born in August, and happiest in the heat. She and Philippa cover:</p><ul><li>Dream holiday: a pale pink villa on the Amalfi Coast, a little boat, one evening a week with a local chef, and a carefully curated stack of books</li><li>Nightmare holiday: Las Vegas — fake light, fake skies, rows of slot machines, and a pool you're not actually allowed to swim in</li><li>The art of the airport — checkers vs loungers, and why Elly is slowly becoming her husband</li><li>Buying your own book in an airport duty-free shop and having to pretend you didn't know it was there</li><li>The Jodi Picoult book she left behind in a holiday rental with one chapter to go (it still haunts her)</li><li>The worst possible holiday book: saccharine sweet, no darkness underneath, and the last chapter ripped out</li></ul><p><strong>🎙️ The Killing Time — Elly Griffiths</strong></p><p>The second book in the Ali Dawson series finds time travel strictly forbidden — until Ali's cat goes missing and she decides the rules don't quite apply to that. What follows takes her to 1851, the Great Exhibition, a sinister mesmerist called Barry Power, and a chance encounter with Italian physicist Serafina Pellegrini — all with her cat Terry somehow along for the ride.</p><p>Elly and Philippa discuss:</p><ul><li>Why time travel in these books is really just \"where Allie goes\" — no sci-fi knowledge required</li><li>How Ali arrived fully-formed, red-haired and nose-ringed, walking down an East End street</li><li>Her nod to Chaucer's Wife of Bath in Allie's character</li><li>The Ruth Galloway update — a short story set on a Nile cruise, and a tantalising hint about Ruth's daughter Kate turning 18 this November...</li><li><em>The Case of the Christmas Card</em> (out October): a novella in which Charles Dickens travels to 2024, falls in love with M&amp;S sandwiches, and helps Ali solve a case</li><li><em>The Night Watchman</em> (out February): Ali goes back to the London Blitz — and Elly goes deep on 1940s rabbit keeping</li><li>What expression she hopes readers will have at the end: satisfaction, with a little curl of curiosity</li></ul><p><strong>Ice cream order:</strong> Coffee, classic, in a little cup — the odd coffee bean acceptable, squirty cream absolutely not.</p><p><em>The Killing Time</em> is out now in hardback. Paperback out <strong>10th September</strong>.</p><p>💬 <strong>Get in touch</strong></p><p>Quick Book Reviews Facebook Group | Instagram | <a href=\"mailto:quickbookreviews@outlook.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">quickbookreviews@outlook.com</a></p><p><em>Quick Book Reviews: author interviews and book reviews with no spoilers.</em></p>","author_name":"Philippa Hall"}