Joy Ellis is an English author of crime thriller novels. She writes the DI Nikki Galena and DS Joe Easter series, as well as the DI Rowan Jackman and DS Maria Evens series. Joy was born in Kent, but spent the majority of her adult life in London and Surrey. She worked as an apprentice florist at Constance Spry, Ltd. in Mayfair. She would later go on to work a variety of different jobs, including being a bookshop manager. Joy has been writing mysteries for years, but didn’t focus on it until later. She sets her novels in the Lincolnshire Fens, which she loves due to its remote location and the beauty of the marshlands. It is also where she makes her home, with her partner, Jacqueline (a retired police officer).
Joy Ellis made her debut as a published novelist in 2010 with the novel Mask Wars (aka Crime on the Fens). Below is a list of Joy Ellis’ books in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Detective Matt Ballard Books
Publication Order of DI Nikki Galena & DS Joe Easter Books
Publication Order of DI Rowan Jackman & DS Maria Evans Books
Publication Order of Ellie McEwan Books
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Anthologies
Notes: Mask Wars was later re-published as Crime on the Fens. Shadowbreaker was re-titled Shadow Over the Fens.
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Joy Ellis Synopsis: The Murderer’s Son is the first book in the DI Rowan Jackman and DS Maria Evens series by Joy Ellis. Twenty years ago, a farmer and his wife are cut to pieces by a ruthless serial killer. Fast forward to today, and a woman is viciously stabbed to death in the upmarket kitchen of her beautiful house on the edge of the marshes. Then a man called Daniel Kinder walks into Saltern police station and confesses to the murder. But DI Rowan Jackman and DS Marie Evans of the Fenland Constabulary soon discover that there is a lot more to Daniel than meets the eye. He has no memory of the first five years of his life and is obsessed with who his real mother is. With no evidence to hold him, Jackman and Evans are forced to let him go, and in a matter of days the lonely Lincolnshire Fens become the stage for more killings and Daniel has disappeared. In a breathtaking finale, the truth about Daniel’s mother comes to light and DI Jackman and DS Evans race against time to stop more lives being destroyed.
Have just started your series. I am enjoying your books very much. Eagerly starting the next one
Great books thank you
Just writing to say how much I have enjoyed the Audio books written by you, I am just about to start the finial book of the Series DI Rowan Jackson and DS Marie Evans, they really are thrilling. These I have through BorrowBox via the Library and download. Mostly listen whilst doing jobs or travelling, thank you you bring it to life. X