Joy Ellis

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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2010
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Detective Matt Ballard

1 - Beware the Past (Dec-2017)
2 - Five Bloody Hearts (Feb-2019)
3 - The Dying Light (Nov-2020)
4 - Marshlight (Jul-2021)
5 - Trick of the Night (Jun-2022)
6 - The Bag of Secrets (Nov-2023)

DI Nikki Galena

1 - Mask Wars (Jun-2010)
2 - Shadowbreaker // Shadow Over the Fens (Mar-2013)
3 - Crime on the Fens (Dec-2016)
4 - Hunted on the Fens (Feb-2017)
5 - Killer on the Fens (Mar-2017)
6 - Stalker on the Fens (Aug-2017)
7 - Captive on the Fens (Sep-2017)
8 - Buried on the Fens (Mar-2018)
9 - Thieves on the Fens (Apr-2018)
10 - Fire on the Fens (May-2018)
11 - Darkness on the Fens (Sep-2019)
12 - Hidden on the Fens (Apr-2020)
13 - Fear on the Fens (Feb-2022)
14 - Graves on the Fens (Dec-2022)

An Ellie McEwan Mystery

1 - An Aura of Mystery (Jan-2024)
2 - The Colour Of Mystery (Feb-2024)

A Jackman and Evans Thriller

1 - The Murderer's Son (Mar-2014)
2 - Their Lost Daughters (Mar-2017)
3 - The Fourth Friend (Aug-2017)
4 - The Guilty Ones (Mar-2018)
5 - The Stolen Boys (Feb-2020)
6 - The Patient Man (Jun-2020)
7 - They Disappeared (Nov-2020)
8 - The Night Thief (Feb-2022)
9 - Solace House (Oct-2022)
10 - The River's Edge (Jul-2023)

Book List in Order: 35 titles

  • Mask Wars

    DI Nikki Galena - 1

    Nikki Galena is a tough detective inspector -- maybe too tough, because she has just been given a final warning. Her only hope is to team up with another loner, DS Joseph Easter, the man they call Holy Joe, in a bid to save her tattered reputation. A...

  • Shadowbreaker // Shadow Over the Fens

    DI Nikki Galena - 2

    As DI Nikki Galena struggles to come to terms with the tragic death of her friend, a man is found on a piece of wasteland in Greenborough town. The manner of his death, a cold-blooded and professional execution, bothers her deeply, but not nearly as ...

  • Crimesight

    DCI Kate Reynard is the senior officer in charge of Fenland Constabulary's Serious Crime Unit, and her team is legendary when it comes to arrest and conviction rates. The thing is, Kate has a secret weapon, and it's one that she dare not share with a...

  • The Murderer's Son

    A Jackman and Evans Thriller - 1

    "What if your mother was a serial killer?"A BLOODY KILLER SEEMS TO HAVE RETURNED TO THE LINCOLNSHIRE FENSA gripping crime thriller by the best-selling author of the Nikki Galena series.Twenty years ago: a farmer and his wife are cut to pieces by a ru...

  • Crime on the Fens

    DI Nikki Galena - 3

    DI Nikki Galena: A police detective with nothing left to lose, she's seen a girl die in her arms, and her daughter will never leave the hospital again. She's got tough on the criminals she believes did this to her. Too tough. And now she's been given...

  • Hunted on the Fens

    DI Nikki Galena - 4

    DI Nikki Galena faces her toughest challenge yet. Can she save her team and herself from a cruel and determined adversary who will stop at nothing to harm Nikki and her colleagues? First she must work out who wants revenge against her or one of her d...

  • Killer on the Fens

    DI Nikki Galena - 5

    DI Nikki Galena faces a personal challenge which will stretch her to the limit. She must fulfill her father's dying wish and discover who the mysterious Eve is. Meanwhile a dead drug dealer is found on an abandoned airfield that the locals say is hau...

  • Their Lost Daughters

    A Jackman and Evans Thriller - 2

    Introducing Audible Exclusive Their Lost Daughters, the first in the Jackman and Evans crime series, written by Joy Ellis, Audible's breakthrough crime author of 2018.

    Deep in the muddy fields of the Lincolnshire Fens, a teenage girl is fo...

  • The Fourth Friend

    A Jackman and Evans Thriller - 3

    Crimebusting duo DI Jackman and DS Evans are back, solving another crime that will make your skin crawl.

    Police detective Carter McLean is the only survivor of a plane crash that kills his four best friends. He returns to work, but he is lef...



  • Stalker on the Fens

    DI Nikki Galena - 6

    DI Nikki Galena's close friend Helen Brook is involved in a serious accident where she is trapped in a collapsed cellar. After her hard-won recovery, Helen is still getting flashbacks to a man she says was down there with her and who confessed to a m...

  • Captive on the Fens

    DI Nikki Galena - 7

    A young woman's body is found in a remote barn on the Fens. Before she was killed, one of her fingers had been cut off. Who is inflicting this violence and why? The young woman in the barn had been kept captive for some time. And the case shows stron...

  • Beware the Past

    Detective Matt Ballard - 1

    One terrible case always haunted detective Matt Ballard. Now many years later, the killer seems to be back. And this time he's after Matt.When Matt Ballard was starting out his career, three boys were murdered in the same area, the remote and bleak G...

  • Buried on the Fens

    DI Nikki Galena - 8

    A skeleton is found in a shallow grave in the churchyard. But this was not an official burial. The victim was murdered decades ago. At the same time, Detective Nikki Galena and her team are investigating the brutal slaying of local businesswoman M...

  • The Guilty Ones

    A Jackman and Evans Thriller - 4

    Jackman and Evans are back in the latest gripping thriller by Joy Ellis, performed by the incomparable Richard Armitage. 

    Jackman's sister-in-law Sarah disappears to London and throws herself into the river. What drove her to this? She was ...

  • Thieves on the Fens

    DI Nikki Galena - 9

    DI Nikki Galena gets a series of anonymous calls. She is told the place, time, and who will die. But the messages are in a secret language used only by villains. Nikki and her team must decode the riddles and work out where the threats are coming fro...

  • Fire on the Fens

    DI Nikki Galena - 10

    The Fens are burning, and Detective Nikki Galena faces a cat-and-mouse battle with a killer arsonist. Someone is lighting fires. First they target homes and businesses, but then a body is found at one of the crime scenes. More fires are lit. An...

  • Five Bloody Hearts

    Detective Matt Ballard - 2

    Grace Repton, a beautiful older woman, walks into the police station to tell Detective Matt Ballard she has information that could stop a murder. Her fiance, the infamous serial killer Jeremy Reader, has told her that he has a disciple who is going t...

  • Darkness on the Fens

    DI Nikki Galena - 11

    A SERIAL KILLER ON A POISONOUS MISSION PUSHES NIKKI AND HER TEAM TO BREAKING POINT Revellers are flocking into Greenborough for the yearly Dark Greenborough Festival, a three-day event celebrating local folklore, superstition and the darker side o...

  • The Stolen Boys

    A Jackman and Evans Thriller - 5

    From number one best-selling author Joy Ellis, a totally absorbing mystery full of stunning twists and turns. Discover the author everyone's talking about. A mystery which will captivate you till the stunning ending. A crime wave has hit t...



  • Hidden on the Fens

    DI Nikki Galena - 12

    Detective Joseph Easter's daughter discovers a cottage hidden in some trees on a large fenland farm. Someone has been living there. The farm-owner's wife has been receiving sinister pagan artifacts, including a witch's knife. Are they ...

  • The Patient Man

    A Jackman and Evans Thriller - 6

  • The Dying Light

    Detective Matt Ballard - 3

    WHISPER FEN HOLDS DARK SECRETS As the mists roll over the fens and enigmatic lights twinkle in the distance, only the locals know their way along the hidden paths through the mysterious watery terrain of one of England's most beautiful and sometimes...

  • They Disappeared

    A Jackman and Evans Thriller - 7

  • Marshlight

    Detective Matt Ballard - 4

  • Fear on the Fens

    DI Nikki Galena - 13

    FROM TWO-MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR JOY ELLIS COMES ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY ANTICIPATED MYSTERIES THIS YEAR. Now. In the beautiful gardens of Shelley House a shocking discovery is made. A blackened hand dangles over the side of a wheelbarrow. The horrific...

  • The Night Thief

    A Jackman and Evans Thriller - 8

    FROM #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOY ELLIS, A TOTALLY ABSORBING CRIME THRILLER FULL OF STUNNING TWISTS AND TURNS. YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN. Discover the author who's sold over two million books globally. When everyone is sleeping, he comes into the...

  • Trick of the Night

    Detective Matt Ballard - 5

  • Solace House

    A Jackman and Evans Thriller - 9

    An isolated house with a terrible past. Is history repeating itself for the new family living there?Holly Stewart moved into Solace House wanting a fresh start for her and her family. She knew the property was cheap because a tragic murder had taken ...

  • Graves on the Fens

    DI Nikki Galena - 14

    It arrives in the morning. An old-fashioned airmail envelope addressed to Detective Nikki Galena. Inside, on a single sheet of blue airmail paper, are three words: You failed me.The second airmail envelope arrives at Nikki's home address. The same me...



  • The River's Edge

    A Jackman and Evans Thriller - 10

    A GRIPPING NEW CRIME THRILLER FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND BRITISH BOOK AWARDS CRIME & THRILLER OF THE YEAR NOMINEE JOY ELLIS.From three-million-selling author Joy Ellis comes one of the most highly anticipated mysteries this year.A series of gruesome...

  • The Bag of Secrets

    Detective Matt Ballard - 6

    Matt and Liz may have retired from the police, but that doesn't guarantee a quiet life.An abandoned carpet bag full of mysterious handwritten notes. A body in a marshy lagoon.Matt is intrigued when his partner Liz brings home an old carpet bag she fo...

  • An Aura of Mystery

    An Ellie McEwan Mystery - 1

    The newly-discovered novel from multi-million-selling author Joy Ellis. Never before published!Flower shop owner Ellie McEwan is driving home late one frosty November night when a shadowy figure leaps into the road out of nowhere. Ellie swerves to av...

  • The Colour Of Mystery

    An Ellie McEwan Mystery - 2

    A NEWLY-DISCOVERED NOVEL FROM MULTI-MILLION SELLING AUTHOR JOY ELLIS'S ARCHIVES. NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED!THREE NICE PEOPLE. THREE TERRIBLE CRIMES. WHAT MADE THEM DO THESE AWFUL THINGS?It's the night shift worker who finds them. Huddled in a hospital s...

  • Guard Her with Your Life

    A GRIPPING STANDALONE NOVELLA FROM MULTI-MILLION SELLING AUTHOR JOY ELLIS. Detective Sam Helsdown waits anxiously at the airport. He's excited and more than a little nervous to be picking up his daughter. It's the first time he's seen ten-year-old Zo...

  • Echoes on the Fens

    From multi-million-selling Joy Ellis. Her twistiest mystery ever!Three days. Three murders. No leads . . . except for Detective Nikki Galena's mother.The call comes at 6.30 a.m. Widowed Angela Sandford has been found dead in her expensively-furnished...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joy Ellis has published 35 books.

Joy Ellis does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Echoes on the Fens, was published in November 2024.

The first book by Joy Ellis, Mask Wars, was published in June 2010.

Yes. Joy Ellis has 4 series.
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