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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 2017
  • Latest Book:
    May 2024
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Full Series List in Order

A Yorkshire Murder Mystery

1 - The Body in Jingling Pot // The Body in the Dales (Mar-2017)
2 - The Quartet Murders (Jun-2017)
3 - The Murder at Redmire Hall (Sep-2018)
4 - The Royal Baths Murder (Oct-2019)
5 - The Nidderdale Murders (Aug-2020)
6 - The Whitby Murders (Jun-2021)
7 - Murder at St Anne's (Dec-2021)
8 - The Railway Murders (Nov-2022)
9 - The Brewery Murders (Oct-2023)
10 - The Canal Murders (May-2024)

Book List in Order: 11 titles



  • An unpopular victim. An impossible crime. A murderer on the loose. A body is discovered deep in a cave beneath the Yorkshire Dales. Leading the investigation into the mysterious death are experienced DCI Jim Oldroyd and his partner DS Carter, a ne...



  • When Detective Chief Inspector Oldroyd witnesses the murder of a violin player at a concert at the Red Chapel Arts Centre in Halifax, the killer appears to vanish from the building. Motives seem to surround possession of the priceless instrument play...



  • The walls are closing in around Kerak Um.Tiago. Now an outcast, this failed operative had once idolized his lost father and older half-sister, both masters of the craft to which Kerak had devoted his life. But no longer. Once the hunter…now the hun...



  • An impossible murder behind a locked door. Can DCI Oldroyd find the key to the mystery? Lord Redmire’s gambling habit has placed him in serious debt. Determined to salvage his fortune by putting Redmire Hall on the map, the aristocrat performs a...



  • A murdered crime writer. An idyllic Yorkshire town. Can DCI Oldroyd separate fact from fiction? A famous writer is found murdered at the Victorian baths in the Yorkshire town of Harrogate. In a crime worthy of one of his novels, Damian Penrose, wh...



  • In a Yorkshire Dales village everyone has a motive for murder -- except the killer. A retired judge is shot dead outside the Dog and Gun inn in the remote Yorkshire village of Niddersgill. There’s a witness who saw everything, and the gunman’s...



  • A murder with three witnesses. But one of them doesn’t believe what she saw…Halloween, Whitby. DCI Jim Oldroyd’s daughter Louise is in town with friends for a goth festival. But their visit to an escape room ends in bloody murder wh...



  • Winter, snow, murder—and a centuries-dead suspect.In the chilly depths of a Yorkshire winter, a well-liked rector is found bludgeoned to death in her own church. With no sign of a murder weapon, local superstition quickly pins the blame on the ...



  • A puzzling locked-room mystery that puts someone Oldroyd loves in terrible danger…When a film shoot on Wharfedale’s vintage railway turns into a grisly crime scene, DCI Oldroyd’s idyllic visit to the countryside with his partner Deb...






  • An award-winning beer worth killing for. Can DCI Oldroyd find the killer before last orders?Steeped in a history of award-winning Yorkshire ale, the town of Markham boasts not one but two breweries. Richard Foster runs one; his sister, Emily, along w...



  • Life moves at a slower pace on the canals. But death always comes when you least expect it.The last thing DS Stephanie Johnson and DS Andy Carter expected during their much-needed canal holiday was a murder. When retired folk musician Annie Shipton i...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

J.R. Ellis has published 11 books.

The next book by J.R. Ellis, The Canal Murders, will be published in May 2024.

The first book by J.R. Ellis, The Body in Jingling Pot // The Body in the Dales, was published in March 2017.

Yes. J.R. Ellis has 1 series.