Author Information
Joy Ellis's Latest Book

Newest Release

  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 2010
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
  • Author Rating:
  • Share:

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)

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)

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: 30 titles



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • "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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...






  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...






  • 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 ...




  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...






  • 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...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joy Ellis has published 30 books.

Joy Ellis does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, GUARD HER WITH YOUR LIFE, was published in February 2024.

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

Yes. Joy Ellis has 3 series.