Tim Ellis

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  • Bibliography:
    65 Books (9 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2006
  • Latest Book:
    May 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Cyrus Kane

1 - An Ill Wind (Sep-2014)
2 - Chains of Illusion (Nov-2015)

Effie Archer

1 - Remnants of a Withered Day (Jun-2016)

Genghis Khan

1 - Warrior: Path of Destiny (Dec-2008)
2 - Warrior: Scourge of the Steppe (Mar-2011)

Harte & KP

1 - Solomon's Key (Mar-2011)

Josiah Dark

1 - Dark Christmas (Dec-2013)
2 - Dark Heart (Nov-2015)
3 - Dark Shadows (Jul-2017)
4 - Dark Angel (Nov-2019)

Parish & Richards

1 - A Life for a Life (Nov-2010)
2 - The Wages of Sin (May-2011)
3 - The Flesh Is Weak (Jul-2012)
4 - The Shadow of Death (Jul-2012)
5 - His Wrath Is Come (Jul-2012)
6 - The Breath of Life (Jul-2012)
7 - The Dead Know Not (Aug-2012)
8 - Be Not Afraid (Nov-2012)
9 - The House of Mourning (Apr-2013)
10 - Through a Glass Darkly (Aug-2013)
11 - A Lamb to the Slaughter (Oct-2013)
12 - Silent in the Grave (Mar-2014)
13 - In the Twinkling of an Eye (Jun-2014)
14 - A Time to Kill (Nov-2014)
15 - Deceit is in the Heart (Feb-2015)
16 - The Fragments That Remain (Apr-2015)
17 - The Kisses of an Enemy (Nov-2015)
18 - Evidence of Things Not Seen (Mar-2016)
19 - Dominion of Darkness (Nov-2016)
20 - There Is No Fear in Love (Nov-2016)
21 - All Is Vanity (May-2017)
22 - Wings of the Dawn (Oct-2017)
23 - I Will Fear No Evil (Mar-2018)
24 - The Heart Knoweth (Jul-2018)
25 - Through the Eye of a Needle (Jan-2019)
26 - Lest Darkness Come Upon You (May-2019)
27 - Few Are Chosen (Jul-2019)
28 - All Things Must Pass (Dec-2019)
29 - The Way of All Flesh (May-2020)

Quigg

1 - The Twelve Murders of Christmas (May-2012)
2 - Body 13 (Mar-2011)
3 - The Graves at Angel Brook (Mar-2011)
4 - The Skulls Beneath Eternity Wharf (May-2012)
5 - The Terror at Grisly Park (Feb-2013)
6 - The Haunting of Bleeding Heart Yard (Feb-2014)
7 - The Enigma of Apocalypse Heights (Aug-2016)
8 - The Corpse in Highgate Cemetery (Aug-2015)
9 - The Lost Children of Bethnal Green (Nov-2016)

Stone & Randall

1 - Jacob's Ladder (Mar-2011)
2 - The Gordian Knot (Jun-2013)

Tom Gabriel

1 - Footprints of the Dead (Dec-2012)
2 - Whispers of the Dead (Sep-2014)
3 - Souls of the Dead (Jun-2015)
4 - Games of the Dead (Jan-2017)
5 - Rage of the Dead (Oct-2018)

Book List in Order: 65 titles

  • Treasury of Bedtime Stories

  • Warrior: Path of Destiny

    Genghis Khan - 1

    Mongolian Steppe (1176 - 1183): Warrior: Path of Destiny, the first book in the Warrior series, tells the story of Temujin's childhood and enslavement. It interweaves the brutality of history, revenge, love, friendship and betrayal in telling the sto...

  • A Life for a Life

    Parish & Richards - 1

    What starts as a routine stabbing for Detective Inspector Jed Parish and new recruit Police Constable Mary Richards turns into the hunt for a serial killer who uses an unusual weapon to kill, and leaves numbered tokens in his victim's mouths. As well...

  • Body 13

    Quigg - 2

    Detective Inspector Quigg and his temporary partner new recruit Police Constable Mavourneen Duffy hunt for a stolen corpse â€" tagged as Body 13 â€" from the mortuary at Hammersmith Hospital, which leads to the discovery of an exclusive paedophile ri...

  • The Graves at Angel Brook

    Quigg - 3

    The sequel to Body 13 has Detective Inspector Quigg and Detective Constable Heather Walsh (his new temporary partner) trying to identify a serial killer who carves biblical references into his child victims. As they struggle to solve the riddle of th...

  • The Knowledge of Time: Second Civilisation

    Earth 5036: When Gracie eavesdrops on her father’s meetings with the Grammers, and learns of a library that travels through time, she must undertake a perilous journey predicted three thousand years before to save the knowledge of humanity from the...

  • Prophecy

    Grog the Orc is a coward, and has been banished from the Bloodwolf Clan for failing the passage to adulthood. So begins his prophesied quest to find the last human on Garagol, who it is rumoured knows witchery, and can give him back his courage.He is...

  • Untended Treasures

  • Jacob's Ladder

    Stone & Randall - 1

    A serial killer returns to butcher a fourth family and carve a symbol into the flesh of a little girl's forehead. Ex-Detective Inspector Cole Randall is released from Springfield Asylum after a year of being committed indefinitely for killing the pre...



  • Solomon's Key

    Harte & KP - 1

    Women are being murdered and mutilated in Hammersmith, London. The killer is leaving messages in ancient languages pinned to the victims, and Detective Chief Inspector James Harte must recruit a cryptographer from GCHQ to help him. The decrypted mess...

  • Warrior: Scourge of the Steppe

    Genghis Khan - 2

    Mongolian Steppe (1190 - 1206): Warrior: Scourge of the Steppe is the second book in the Warrior series. It tells the story of Temujin's rise to power with the aid of Wang Khan of the Kereit. How he systematically destroyed his enemies to create a Mo...

  • The Wages of Sin

    Parish & Richards - 2

    A psychopath begins mutilating women and hanging them upside down in abandoned buildings with a meat hook through their ankles. Pinned to their breasts are messages in ancient languages. DI Jed Parish and PC Mary Richards begin their investigation, b...

  • The Skulls Beneath Eternity Wharf

    Quigg - 4

    Here it is at last â€" the fourth in the Quigg series. Quigg faces his most difficult case yet when over a thousand skulls are discovered beneath Eternity Wharf in Fulham. Quigg and Walsh must investigate the past and the present to find out the trut...

  • The Twelve Murders of Christmas

    Quigg - 1

    Detective Inspector Quigg and Sergeant Lulu Begone (on an exchange programme from the South African Police Service) must hunt down a festive serial killer who is selecting his victims to match the Christmas carol - The Twelve Days of Christmas. Each ...

  • Where do you want to go today?

    A second collection of short stories that will prise your chest open, rip your thrashing heart out, and leave your bleeding corpse gasping for more.There's also some samples at the end from Alex Knight, Betty Carlton, Mel Comley, Libby Fischer, Sibel...

  • As You Sow, So Shall You Reap

    DI Inigo Morgan and his partner DC Tigris Griffiths must travel a tortuous journey to find the killer of Verona Izatt, a woman who lived alone in a cottage left to her by her aunt in Little Haven in Wales, and is discovered with her lips sewn togethe...

  • The Breath of Life

    Parish & Richards - 6

    Parish and Richards investigate a case involving recently pregnant headless bodies disposed of in the sewers. Not only do they struggle to discover the identity of the victims, but they can't find the babies either. Kowalski and Nash investigate the ...

  • The Flesh Is Weak

    Parish & Richards - 3

    A grave containing the skeleton of ten year-old Amy Linton - missing for eight years - is found in Galleyhill Wood in Essex, and then Head of Forensics, Paul Toadstone, finds more skeletons in the same grave, and more graves in the woods. A reporter,...

  • His Wrath Is Come

    Parish & Richards - 5

    PC Lola Laveque in Missing Persons identifies a pattern. Murders are thin on the ground, so Parish and Richards decide to investigate. Their investigations lead them all over Essex, and eventually to Maldon where they discover one man's obsession for...



  • The Shadow of Death

    Parish & Richards - 4

    DCI Marshall has taken the place of Chief Walter Day, transferred Kowalski to Traffic Analysis, and is taking an active role in running the investigations, but she has another agenda! Toadstone finds a body in a metal trunk at the landfill site, whic...

  • The Dead Know Not

    Parish & Richards - 7

    Parish & Richards have two cases to solve. One turns out to be unfinished business, the other is very close to home. Angie struggles to come to terms with her new baby. Kowalski is promoted, but someone is out to ruin him. Two detectives join the tea...

  • Be Not Afraid

    Parish & Richards - 8

    Parish and Richards travel to Quantica, Virginia to give a presentation at an FBI conference on serial killers in different cultures, but they stumble over an American serial Killer called "The Painter". Chief Kowalski and his wife Jerry are accused ...

  • Footprints of the Dead

    Tom Gabriel - 1

    Tom Gabriel retired, or at least he thought he had. All he wants to do is join his dead wife Carrie, but life and death are never that simple. Gretchen Hebb asks him to find her daughter - Mercy - who works as an investigative journalist for the St. ...

  • The Terror at Grisly Park

    Quigg - 5

  • The House of Mourning

    Parish & Richards - 9

    Parish & Richards must find a killer who is carving broken hearts on women's abdomens and then murdering them. Stick & Xena have the case of a severed hand, which was found by a bag lady in a waste bin outside the local fish & chip shop, but Xena has...

  • The Gordian Knot

    Stone & Randall - 2

    DI Molly Stone returns to work after her ordeal in Jacob's Ladder and - together with her partner Tony Read - must solve the case of a crucified priest. Cole Randall is now a private investigator and agrees to look into the disappearance of a husband...

  • Through a Glass Darkly

    Parish & Richards - 10

    Parish & Richards are sent to Cyprus to discover if a British Army officer being held by the Cypriot police is responsible for murdering a local woman and the disappearance of three other women, or whether he is being made a scapegoat by the anti-Bri...

  • A Lamb to the Slaughter

    Parish & Richards - 11

    Parish, a hobbling Richards and a lush DI from Norwich investigate the death of a child found in Hangman's Wood, which is linked to a spate of child abductions across the southeast by someone calling himself The Removal Man. Parish also receives a se...

  • Dark Christmas

    Josiah Dark - 1

    With a new partner he doesn’t want, a journalist who defies the laws of physics and an unknown man letting himself into his house, Detective Inspector Josiah Dark of the Serious Crimes Division must find out why Santa has been busy leaving gory Chr...



  • The Haunting of Bleeding Heart Yard

    Quigg - 6

    Quigg and Kline face their most difficult case yet - unravelling the mystery behind the dismembered body in Bleeding Heart Yard. Kline goes on a journey of discovery with a holocaust survivor, and Lucy has her own trials and tribulations....

  • Silent in the Grave

    Parish & Richards - 12

    Parish and Richards are on a body hunt. Xena â€" with the help of Charlie Baxter, Cookie and Jenifer â€" conducts an investigation from her hospital bed to prove Stick is innocent, even though he won’t help himself. Kowalski can’t concentrate on ...

  • On The Verge

    On The Verge is a verse-novel telling the incredible story of Tom, a young and somewhat spaced-out hitch-hiker. He is given a ride by Arno, a bad tempered trucker who drives a gigantic juggernaut. Arno’s bullish and profit-driven world-view causes ...

  • In the Twinkling of an Eye

    Parish & Richards - 13

    Parish & Richards are given the case of a gifted boy murdered on the fourteenth green at the local golf course; Richards is also trying to find out if a 1966 diary that she bought at a car boot sale, and written by a captive 15 year-old girl called L...

  • An Ill Wind

    Cyrus Kane - 1

    Novella (23,000-words). All Detective Inspector Cyrus Kane wants is a bit of peace and quiet after the suicide of his wife, so he hires an isolated cottage in Cornwall for the Christmas holidays, but fate has something else in store for him....

  • Whispers of the Dead

    Tom Gabriel - 2

    Tom Gabriel has now got his PI's licence and has been asked to find a woman's missing husband, but nothing is what it seems. The more he finds, the less he understands. Rae has been promoted to Investigative Journalist, and with Tom's help is trying ...

  • A Time to Kill

    Parish & Richards - 14

    Parish & Richards investigate what appears to be the simple case of a woman who was sexually assaulted and murdered in her own apartment, but Richards is convinced it's the work of a serial killer . . . Stick & Xena attend the A&E at King George Hosp...

  • Deceit is in the Heart

    Parish & Richards - 15

    Richards is seconded to the Serious Crime Analysis Section (SCAS) at Bramshill in Hampshire, but sometimes evil sneaks in before the door is bolted . . . When Epping detectives put Carrie's murder on the pending pile, Parish knows that he must find h...

  • The Fragments That Remain

    Parish & Richards - 16

    Parish and Richards are given the baffling case of a man drained of blood and left suspended in a Community Centre in the position of The Hanging Man from a pack of Tarot cards with a number on a piece of paper inserted into his heart, but this murde...

  • Souls of the Dead

    Tom Gabriel - 3

    Tom Gabriel is asked by Giuseppe to go back to Staten Island and find out who killed his friend - the bag lady - Horty. No sooner does he begin investigating her murder, than a sniper tries to kill him. He is soon trying to keep one step ahead of the...



  • The Corpse in Highgate Cemetery

    Quigg - 8

    Quigg has a new partner - DS Jane Dwyer from Vice, but it's just for one case, and she doesn't like him. But they have to make the best of a bad pairing because a woman has been murdered and it looks like a vampire is feeding in Highgate. Rodney Cran...

  • Chains of Illusion

    Cyrus Kane - 2

    Detective Inspector Cyrus Kane’s working holiday in Cornwall has come to an end. He has returned to Brick Lane Police Station in London to re-join his partner â€" Detective Sergeant Jenny Wells. As well as trying to solve the murder of his wife and...

  • Dark Heart

    Josiah Dark - 2

    A Josiah Dark Novella (22,000-words). A fourteen year-old girl’s body is found in a frozen grave by three children metal detecting in a field. Detective Inspector Josiah Dark of the Serious Crime Division at Greater Manchester Police thought he’d...

  • The Kisses of an Enemy

    Parish & Richards - 17

    Due to a shortage of murders, Parish and Richards are asked to help out in the search for a missing eight year-old girl, but as usual things are never what they seem. Xena and Stick are seconded to the Kent & Essex Serious Crime Directorate and are p...

  • Murder Comes to Camelot

    (Novella of 23,000-words) Major (Retired) Augustus Rillington, late of the 17th Royal Lancers, has been invited to Camelot over the festive season to participate in a Grail Quest, but all is not what it seems....

  • Evidence of Things Not Seen

    Parish & Richards - 18

    The new Chief arrives - DCI Nigel Nibley - who hands out the new murder investigations. Parish and Richards are given the case of a murdered ten year-old boy, but a three-link chain tattoo under his top lip hints at something more than an abduction, ...

  • Remnants of a Withered Day

    Effie Archer - 1

    Single mother, Detective Inspector Effie Archer, is struggling â€" with an overbearing bully for a boss; an inability to balance her work and personal life; a mother who criticises her at every opportunity; a shortage of manpower; and five murder cas...

  • The Enigma of Apocalypse Heights

    Quigg - 7

    Quigg and Tallie Kline have no problem getting into Apocalypse Heights, but have the devil of a job getting out again. (Novella: 26,000-words). (Note: This is not a new publication. It was at the end of Quigg 6, but some people had difficulty identif...

  • The Measure of All Things

    Novella (21,000-words): A male corpse - missing his heart, liver and kidneys - is found at the recycling plant in Little Haven, Pembrokeshire. Tigger is back at work, but she has PTSD, so Inigo swaps her for a Constable - Nell Roberts - from Operatio...

  • Dominion of Darkness

    Parish & Richards - 19

    Parish and Richards are given the case of a beautiful naked mutilated woman who seems to have walked away from her life. Xena and Stick must find out whether the killer of an eight year old girl has returned 24 years later to finish what he started. ...



  • The Lost Children of Bethnal Green

    Quigg - 9

    (Novella: 21,000-words): It’s All Hallows Eve! DI Quigg has a new partner â€" DC Jezebel Rummage â€" but she’s not all she seems. Seven children have gone missing in one month from the Ragged Children’s Home in Bethnal Green. As far as anyone i...

  • There Is No Fear in Love

    Parish & Richards - 20

    For Parish and Richards, what begins with the discovery of a small heart carved into the forehead of a murdered young woman, turns into the search for a prolific serial killer called The Lover, and involves the Met's Serious Crimes Investigative Team...

  • Games of the Dead

    Tom Gabriel - 4

    Allegre wants Tom to find out who’s been sending her 1950s Ellis Island tourist postcards on the same date for the past five years, but she’s only telling him half the truth. Rae wants his help with the disappearance of a mystery writer from a lo...

  • All Is Vanity

    Parish & Richards - 21

    Parish and Richards are given the case of a thigh bone found on waste ground, but one thigh bone leads to a number of other dis-articulated bones. Xena and Stick have the case of a young female shop assistant who has been bludgeoned to death in a sex...

  • Professor Googalfitz Explains It All

    Professor Googalfitz explains it all in this fun book featuring a dozen magical science experiments you can do safely at home. He's even thrown in a few brain twisters to get your grey matter in gear and help you on the path to full Professorship!...

  • Dark Shadows

    Josiah Dark - 3

    An unidentified male corpse, with a wooden stake hammered into its heart, has been pulled from the Peak Forest Canal at Lock Number 9 in Marple. Detective Inspector Josiah Dark has been sent to investigate. The initial chaos at the crime scene is com...

  • Wings of the Dawn

    Parish & Richards - 22

    Parish and Richards must solve the case of a family murdered at a farm, which appears to be a revenge killing, but revenge for what? And by whom? And how are MI6 involved? There's also Richards' impending departure to London to work at SCIT, the man ...

  • I Will Fear No Evil

    Parish & Richards - 23

    Parish is without Richards. Instead, his new partner - DC Evie Maddison, is testing his patience. They have the case of a solicitor buried in a shallow grave, and it takes a twisting path to get to the truth. Xena and Stick have the case of a mummifi...

  • The Heart Knoweth

    Parish & Richards - 24

    Parish and Richards are sent to the British Virgin Islands to catch a child serial killer, but getting there is a matter of life and death. Xena and Stick have the case of a woman murdered in the library at Essex University's Loughton Campus, but wha...

  • Rage of the Dead

    Tom Gabriel - 5

    The crime rate in St. Augustine has increased to unacceptably high levels and Rae decides to investigate by launching a media campaign to find out who the public think is responsible, but then she receives a phone call from a man who says he's the pe...

  • Through the Eye of a Needle

    Parish & Richards - 25

    Parish and Richards are given the case of a strangled woman left in a standing position wedged between a fence and a cycling sign on the bank of the River Lee in Rye Park. She also has a gravestone from the local church tied around her ankles. As the...

  • Lest Darkness Come Upon You

    Parish & Richards - 26

    Sir Arthur Quinton is murdered in his own bedroom during a garden party at Darcy Court and Parish and Richards must use all their skill to find the culprit and bring them to justice. As usual though, the investigation twists and turns to an unnerving...

  • Few Are Chosen

    Parish & Richards - 27

    Parish and Richards are given the case of a naked man found in a ditch who has been tortured, his genitalia severed and stuffed in his mouth. It quickly becomes apparent that the victim is an accused rapist who was released the previous day due to mi...

  • Dark Angel

    Josiah Dark - 4

    DI Dark is asked by Chief Superintendent Henn to join the task force under DCI Mathers to help solve the murders of seven children over eight months in Greater Manchester, but Dark will only get involved if he's in charge. Henn relents, hands the inv...

  • All Things Must Pass

    Parish & Richards - 28

    Parish and Angie go on holiday to the island of Santorini in Greece, but when Angie goes missing the morning after their arrival, Parish has to work with the local police to find her. Richards is tasked with going through the cold cases at the Eviden...

  • The Way of All Flesh

    Parish & Richards - 29

    Parish and Richards are holding the fort. In DCI D'Aramitz's absence, the Chief Constable gives them the case of an emaciated body found in Hatfield Forest and sends DCI Lester to take over as the Senior Investigating Officer, because Parish hasn't b...

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Tim Ellis has published 65 books.

Tim Ellis does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Way of All Flesh, was published in May 2020.

The first book by Tim Ellis, Treasury of Bedtime Stories, was published in July 2006.

Yes. Tim Ellis has 9 series.
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