Joy Ellis

From multi-million-selling Joy Ellis, one of Britain's best-loved crime writers, with over twenty number-one bestsellers. Meet Detective Nikki Galena. She will stop at nothing to avenge her daughter. Under the brooding skies of the Lincolnshire Fens, she pursues the most vicious criminals. The DetectiveDI 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 one final warning: make it work with her new sergeant, DS Joseph Easter, or she's out. Her PartnerDS Joseph Easter is the squeaky-clean new member of the team. But his nickname "Holy Joe" belies his former life as a soldier. He has an estranged daughter who blames him for everything that went wrong with their family. Their EnemyA ruthless man who holds DI Galena responsible for his terrible disfigurement. The town is being terrorised by gangs of violent thugs, all wearing identical hideous masks. Then a talented young female student goes missing on the marsh and Nikki and Joseph find themselves joining forces with a master criminal in their efforts to save her. They need to look behind the masks, but when they do, they find something more sinister and deadly than they ever expected . . . The SettingThe Lincolnshire Fens: great open skies brood over marshes, farmland, and nature reserves. It is not easy terrain for the Fenland Constabulary to police: with remote Fen villages, dangerous and often misty lanes, and poor telephone coverage. There are still villages where the oldest residents have never set foot outside their own farmland. A visit to the nearest town is a major event. But it has a strange airy beauty to it, and above it all are the biggest skies you've ever seen. This totally gripping mystery is perfect for fans of L. J. Ross, Angela Marsons, J. D. Kirk, Elly Griffiths and Ann Cleeves.

From multi-million-selling Joy Ellis, one of Britain's best-loved crime writers, with over twenty number-one bestsellers. Meet Detective Nikki Galena. She will stop at nothing to avenge her daughter. Under the brooding skies of the Lincolnshire Fens, she pursues the most vicious criminals. Two brutal killers are loose on the Fens. Nikki is called out to a body recovered at the foot of St Saviour's Tower. A suicide. But as she stares at the dead man lying in the reddish-brown river mud, his body impossibly twisted, the words freeze in her throat. Nikki knows this man. She'd seen him just that day. He was coming over for coffee at the weekend. The dead man is her neighbour, Martin Durham. Witnesses say he seemed scared to death of something. Did he jump . . . or was he pushed? Then a second body is found on a patch of wasteland in Greenborough town. Bound at the wrist and ankles, throat sliced from ear to ear. Is there a connection? And what does Nikki's partner, DS Joseph Easter, know that he's not telling? The SettingThe Lincolnshire Fens: great open skies brood over marshes, farmland, and nature reserves. It is not easy terrain for the Fenland Constabulary to police: with remote Fen villages, dangerous and often misty lanes, and poor telephone coverage. There are still villages where the oldest residents have never set foot outside their own farmland. A visit to the nearest town is a major event. But it has a strange airy beauty to it, and above it all are the biggest skies you've ever seen. This totally gripping mystery is perfect for fans of L. J. Ross, Angela Marsons, J. D. Kirk, Elly Griffiths and Ann Cleeves.

From multi-million-selling Joy Ellis, one of Britain's best-loved crime writers, with over twenty number-one bestsellers. Meet Detective Nikki Galena. She will stop at nothing to avenge her daughter. Under the brooding skies of the Lincolnshire Fens, she pursues the most vicious criminals. A ruthless criminal is targeting Nikki and her team. One by one he will hunt them down and destroy their lives . . . unless she can stop him first. It's PC Danny Wilshire's first day on the job. He's on the 'bun-run' with DC Cat Cullen, picking up sausage rolls for the team. A large black vehicle deliberately mounts the pavement outside the bakery and crashes into them. The impact is swift and violent, hurling Danny through the shop window, and leaving his broken body in a heap of shattered display cabinets and crushed pastries. This is no random attack. Danny was deliberately targeted . . . and he's just the first. Detective Nikki is in a race against time to hunt down a cruel and determined enemy who will stop at nothing to harm her and her team. And what is the connection with the woman found dead in a seemingly impregnable locked room? The SettingThe Lincolnshire Fens: great open skies brood over marshes, farmland, and nature reserves. It is not easy terrain for the Fenland Constabulary to police: with remote Fen villages, dangerous and often misty lanes, and poor telephone coverage. There are still villages where the oldest residents have never set foot outside their own farmland. A visit to the nearest town is a major event. But it has a strange airy beauty to it, and above it all are the biggest skies you've ever seen. This totally gripping mystery is perfect for fans of L. J. Ross, Angela Marsons, J. D. Kirk, Elly Griffiths and Ann Cleeves.

From multi-million-selling Joy Ellis, one of Britain's best-loved crime writers, with over twenty number-one bestsellers. Meet Detective Nikki Galena. She will stop at nothing to avenge her daughter. Under the brooding skies of the Lincolnshire Fens, she pursues the most vicious criminals. A young woman's body is found in a remote barn on the Fens. Before she was killed, one of her fingers was cut off. The case has disturbing similarities to an unsolved murder in Derbyshire the year before. When another woman is found alive with similar injuries, the investigation grows even more complicated. Nikki must rally her team of detectives to find the killer while facing a traitor on the inside. She doesn't know which of her colleagues she can trust as she races against time to save more than one victim - including someone she cares deeply about. The SettingThe Lincolnshire Fens: great open skies brood over marshes, farmland, and nature reserves. It is not easy terrain for the Fenland Constabulary to police: with remote Fen villages, dangerous and often misty lanes, and poor telephone coverage. There are still villages where the oldest residents have never set foot outside their own farmland. A visit to the nearest town is a major event. But it has a strange airy beauty to it, and above it all are the biggest skies you've ever seen. This totally gripping mystery is perfect for fans of L. J. Ross, Angela Marsons, J. D. Kirk, Elly Griffiths and Ann Cleeves.

From multi-million-selling Joy Ellis, one of Britain's best-loved crime writers, with over twenty number-one bestsellers. Meet Detective Nikki Galena. She will stop at nothing to avenge her daughter. Under the brooding skies of the Lincolnshire Fens, she pursues the most vicious criminals. Detective Nikki's friend thinks she has a deadly stalker. 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 murder. But no trace of this man can be found. Then Helen tells Nikki that someone is watching her. But is all this in her friend's imagination and part of her post-traumatic stress? And why is Stephen Cox back in town? He's the villain who tore Nikki's life apart and he seems to have returned for revenge. Before long the whole town is on the verge of hysteria and her friend's fear will lead Nikki and Joseph on a very dangerous trail. The SettingThe Lincolnshire Fens: great open skies brood over marshes, farmland, and nature reserves. It is not easy terrain for the Fenland Constabulary to police: with remote Fen villages, dangerous and often misty lanes, and poor telephone coverage. There are still villages where the oldest residents have never set foot outside their own farmland. A visit to the nearest town is a major event. But it has a strange airy beauty to it, and above it all are the biggest skies you've ever seen. This totally gripping mystery is perfect for fans of L. J. Ross, Angela Marsons, J. D. Kirk, Elly Griffiths and Ann Cleeves.

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 Zoe in two years. Flight BA631 from Athens lands and soon people begin trickling through Arrivals. A blonde-haired girl races towards him and throws herself into his arms crying, 'Daddy '. Sam hugs her tightly. But then he looks down at her properly - and an icy horror grips him. The next day, the phone rings. The voice is urgent. 'Help will come. Until then, guard her with your life.' It's Julia, his ex. Ruthless criminals are closing in and Sam will do whatever it takes to keep this girl safe. This utterly gripping crime thriller is perfect for fans of L. J. Ross, J. D. Kirk, Elly Griffiths, Rachel McLean or Ann Cleeves. Please note that this is a novella, not a full-length book.

Ny serie fra en af Englands mest populære krimiforfattere. Fyldt med plottwists, sammenflettede historier og karakterer, du vil elske at være i selskab med. Lincolnshire Fens har igen fået besøg af en morder. For tyve år siden blev en landmand og hans kone parteret af en hensynsløs seriemorder, og nu er en kvinde blevet stukket ihjel i sit eksklusive hjem lige ved marsken. En mand ved navn Daniel Kinder melder sig frivilligt og tilstår mordet. Men kriminalkommissær Rowan Jackman og kriminalassistent Marie Evans fra Fenland Politi opdager hurtigt, at der er noget, der ikke stemmer. Daniel Kinder har ingen erindring om de første fem år af sit liv og er besat af at finde sin rigtige mor. Uden beviser til at holde på ham er Jackman og Evans tvunget til at løslade ham, og i løbet af få dage sker der nye drab. Sandheden om Daniels mor kommer for en dag, og Jackman og Evans befinder sig i et kapløb med tiden for at forhindre, at flere liv ofres. Serien om Jackman & Evans bliver til en tv-serie med Richard Armitage i hovedrollen.

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 store cupboard is elderly Edith Higgins. Knifed to death. Sitting behind her is Staff Nurse Lily Frampton, a scalpel clasped in her blood-soaked hand. No one can understand why this kind-hearted, dedicated nurse would brutally murder a frail patient she's spent months caring for. That same day, mild-mannered schoolteacher Rod Black is found surrounded by the battered bodies of his pupils. Why would a well-respected teacher beat five schoolboys to death? Then a third shocking - and equally inexplicable - incident takes place in a London homeless shelter. What could turn three honest, upright citizens into cold-blooded killers? Once again, DCI Bob Foreman calls on Ellie McEwan for help. Can Ellie use her extraordinary psychic gift to uncover the truth? But will that make Ellie the killer's next target? DISCOVER A TOTALLY ENTHRALLING CRIME THRILLER. This utterly gripping crime thriller is perfect for fans of L. J. Ross, J. D. Kirk, Elly Griffiths, Susan Hill, Kate Ellis or Ann Cleeves.

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 avoid him - and slams head-on into the crash barrier. Days later, Ellie wakes up in hospital - and notices there's something different. Everyone she looks at - the doctor, the nurse, her friend Carole - is surrounded by a coloured aura. Her near-death experience seems to have given her a new ability. And now Ellie must use her new-found gift to catch a killer. The battered body of a young woman is found in the grounds of a local hotel. She's the third woman to be murdered in this sleepy Surrey village, her hands crushed and mutilated. Just like the other two. Each of the women was a skilled professional - a musician, a doctor and an artist. Apart from that, they appear to have nothing in common. And now the police's one lead - a key witness - is missing. Although sceptical, a desperate DCI Bob Foreman calls on Ellie for help. But Ellie's involvement in the investigation will throw her into the path of a brutal killer . . .

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 found dumped in the local library. It contains a pile of mysterious handwritten notes. Liz is convinced the bag belongs to Old Molly, a local woman who lives on the streets. The following day, a body is discovered in a marshy lagoon. It's Old Molly. Suffocated with an expensive men's handkerchief. Molly clearly knew something that got her killed. Liz believes she was trying to tell them something important. She calls on her nephew David to help decipher the carpet bag notes. Meanwhile Matt is hired to find teenage runaway Liam Cooper. Liam has been missing for ten days now, and Matt has a very bad feeling about him. A few days later, a second body is discovered in an old barn out on the fens. Matt and Liz must piece together the cryptic clues Molly has left for them before more people die. The answers lead to the remote fenland village of Marshdyke-St-Mary - and a series of shocking secrets stretching back many years.

Liget af en ung kvinde bliver fundet i en fjerntliggende lade på marsken. En af hendes fingre er blevet skåret af, før hun blev dræbt. Forbrydelsen har en del ligheder med et andet uopklaret mord i egnen, og da en tredje kvinde bliver fundet i live med lignende skader, bliver sagen endnu mere kompliceret. Samtidig har politiet modtaget oplysninger om, at den nådesløse forbryder Freddy Carver er tilbage og planlægger at starte nye forretninger i Greenborough. Nikki Galena er desperat efter at opspore ham og sætte en stopper for det, men at finde ham er ikke let. Og hvorfor dukker han op lige nu, hvor unge kvinder forsvinder og bliver myrdet? Nikki Galena må samle hele sit hold, alt imens hun løber om kap med tiden for at redde mere end ét offer – inklusive én, hun holder meget af. Fanget på marsken er sjette bind i Nikki Galena-serien, der foregår i den fiktive by Greenborough i området The Fens nord for Cambridge. Et stort, fladt marskområde, kendt for sine hyggelige småbyer, hvor alle kender alle, og for den tætte tåge, der pludselig kan lægge sig over landskabet.

Efter en alvorlig ulykke bliver kriminalkommisær Nikki Galenas nære veninde Helen Brook fastklemt i en sammenstyrtet kælder. Hun slipper mirakuløst med livet i behold, men lider af voldsomme flashbacks om en ukendt mand, der var fanget i kælderen sammen med hende, og som tilstod et mord – men politiet har ingen spor efter ham. Helen beder Nikki om hjælp. Hun er bange og føler, at nogen overvåger hende, men ingen kan finde ud af, om det er virkeligt, eller om følelsen er udløst af hendes traume. Samtidig er Stephen Cox tilsyneladende tilbage i byen, manden, der allerede én gang tidligere har ødelagt Nikkis liv, og han er stadig lige skræmmende og uforudsigelig. Inden længe er hele byen i oprør, og Helens frygt fører Nikki og Joseph ned ad et meget farligt spor. ? Forfulgt på marsken er femte bind i Nikki Galena-serien, der foregår i den fiktive by Greenborough i området The Fens nord for Cambridge, et stort, fladt marskområde, kendt for sine hyggelige småbyer, hvor alle kender alle, og for den tætte tåge, der har pludselig kan lægge sig over landskabet.

Kriminalkommissær Nikki Galena står over for en særlig udfordring. På sit dødsleje har hendes far efterladt hende meden sidste bøn: "Find Eve." Hvem er denne Eve, som hun aldrig har hørt om? Samtidig med at Nikki skal opklare dette personlige mysterium, bliver hun og hendes team sat til at opklare mordet på en mand, der er fundet på en forladt flyveplads, som ifølge de lokale er hjemsøgt. Opklaringen af begge mysterier fører til chokerende opdagelser og bringer Nikki og hele hendes team i overhængende fare. Nikki Galena-serien foregår i den fiktive by Greenborough i området The Fens nord for Cambridge, et stort fladt marskområde, kendt for sine hyggelige småbyer og den tætte tåge, der har det med ofte at lægge sig over landskabet.

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 murders on the Lincolnshire fens. An old enemy from the past. A deadly game of cat and mouse. The peaceful little village of Saltern-le-Fen is buzzing with excitement. A film crew are in town, shooting a new TV police drama, Fen Division Five. But Detective Jackman receives a disturbing tip-off that something is wrong. Detective Marie Evans meanwhile is looking forward to moving into her dream home. But there's no time to celebrate. The naked body of a young man is found at the river's edge. He's been strangled, his skin massaged in expensive oil. Two days later, another handsome young man is discovered in a shallow lake. His throat cut. He too is lathered in body oil. At the same time, an arch enemy from the past emerges. A master manipulator who has his sights on Jackman and Evans. From behind the bars of his high security prison, he's putting the finishing touches to a devastating revenge plan. As they hunt a brutal killer, Jackman and Evans are themselves hunted in a deadly game of cat and mouse - and the stakes could not be higher.

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 message. Only this time, it's followed by four names: Alexandra Cornfield, Ruth Baker, Bethany Lyons, Leanne Delaney. Four missing women. Four local women whose bodies were never found. The contents of the third letter, delivered by motorcycle courier, are even more disturbing. The letter leads directly to the discovery of a body buried in a shallow grave out on the Fens. And Nikki and her partner Detective Joseph Easter are plunged into a baffling murder investigation. Someone appears to be pursuing a personal vendetta against Nikki - and she has no idea who, or why. But one thing she does know: whoever it is is playing a very twisted game - and if Nikki and her team don't stop them, more deaths will follow.

Kriminalkommissær Nikki Gelena er netop flyttet tilbage til sit barndomshjem på marsken, da hendes gamle ven og nabo Martin styrter i døden for øjnene af en flok turister. Er det gruopvækkende selvmord udløst af et øjebliks vanvid, eller skal det mon efterforskes som et mord? Ikke længe efter findes en ukendt mand dræbt på en tom byggegrund i Greenborough. Det koldblodige mord bringer voldsomme minder frem hos kriminalassistent Joseph Easter fra hans tid i militæret. Er nogen fra hans fortid ude på at ødelægge hans nye liv? Og kan der være en forbindelse til sagen om Nikkis nabo? Inden længe befinder Nikki og Joe og deres lille hold af dedikerede efterforskere sig i et kapløb med tiden for at forhindre nye mord og for at optrevle en fortid, der rummer langt flere dystre hemmeligheder, end de nogensinde havde forestillet sig. NIKKI GALENA-SERIEN foregår i den fiktive by Greenborough i området The Fens nord for Cambridge, et stort, fladt marskområde kendt for sine hyggelige småbyer, hvor alle kender alle, og for den tætte hvide tåge, der har det med pludselig at lægge sig over landskabet.

Byen Greenborough plages af en række forbrydelser begået af kriminelle iført uhyggelige masker, hvilket gør det så godt som umuligt at opklare sagerne. Hvor kommer maskerne fra? Og hvem er det, der deler dem ud til byens småkriminelle rødder? Samtidig forsvinder en mønsterstuderende på marsken, og kriminalkommissær Nikki Galena – kendt som Gale Galena for sine ringe samarbejdsevner og sin hårde kurs over for byens narkoforbrydere – frygter, at der er tale om en alvorlig forbrydelse. Samtidig kæmper hun for at bevare sin stilling. Hun har fået en sidste advarsel. Kun hvis hun kan få det til at fungere med sin nye makker, Joseph Easter med tilnavnet Fromme Joe, kan hun få lov at blive. Kan Nikki og Joe mon nå at redde den forsvundne studerende, eller er hun allerede død? Og har hendes forsvinden forbindelse til sagen om maskerne, som det i så fald haster med at få opklaret? NIKKI GALENA-SERIEN foregår i den fiktive by Greenborough i området The Fens nord for Cambridge, et stort, fladt marskområde kendt for sine hyggelige småbyer, hvor alle kender alle, og for den tætte hvide tåge, der har det med pludselig at lægge sig over landskabet. Pressen skriver: "Barsk historie." 4 stjerner i Jyllands-Posten

En smuk forretningskvinde er fundet myrdet i en aflåst luksuslejlighed, og der er ikke umiddelbart nogen spor at gå efter. Mens kriminalkommissær Nikki Galena og hendes loyale hold kæmper for at få hul på sagen, finder en række ubehagelige begivenheder sted, som skaber kaos og frygt på den lille politistation. Der er tydeligvis en eller flere derude, der vil gøre hvad som helst for at få ram på dem, og det er folk, som kan deres uhyggelige kram til perfektion. Men for hvert grusomt anslag vokser forvirringen. Har de forskellige sager forbindelse til hinanden? Er nogen mon bare ude på at afspore efterforskningen? Og hvem er egentlig målet for de udspekulerede forbrydelser? Nikki står med sin måske hårdeste sag til dato. Kan hun løse den umulige mordgåde og samtidig redde sit hold og sit eget liv? NIKKI GALENA-SERIEN foregår i den fiktive by Greenborough i området The Fens nord for Cambridge, et stort, fladt marskområde kendt for sine hyggelige småbyer, hvor alle kender alle, og for den tætte hvide tåge, der har det med pludselig at lægge sig over landskabet.

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 place there, but she didn't know its full ghastly history. Now, her husband's lost his job, the children are bullied at school, and someone's prowling around the garden at night. Someone who wants them gone. Detective Jackman wants to help. Instead he's pulled into a twenty-year-old cold case: the gruesome murder of a young woman whose head was never found. A new witness comes forward, claiming to have crucial evidence on what really happened that night. Days later, a group of litter-pickers uncover black sacks containing dismembered human limbs. Attending the scene, Detective Marie Evans is shocked to see a strange symbol carved into the victim's flesh: the same symbol found on the headless girl all those years ago. The murders must be connected. But why has the killer struck again - after twenty years? As the threats to the Stewart family escalate, Jackman must choose between helping people in the present and solving the crimes of the past.

Två flickor besöker en fest, bara en överlever. Toni hittas drogad på ett lerigt fält och det är osäkert om hon kommer att överleva. Hon upprepar gång på gång att hennes vän Emily har blivit bortförd. Men ingen vet vem Emily är, eller om hon fortfarande lever. Samtidigt hittas ytterligare än död flicka på en avlägsen strand och kriminalkommissarie Rowan Jackman ställer sig frågan om mordet kan sammankopplas med en liten flickas försvinnande, nästan tio år tidigare. I den andra delen i serien om Rowan Jackman och Marie Evans är stämningen ännu tätare, och brottet får en oväntad och förbluffande upplösning. JOY ELLIS är författare till tre populära deckarserier. Hon bor tillsammans med sin fru, som länge arbetade som högt uppsatt polis, och ett helt gäng springerspaniels i Lincolnshire i England, där alla hennes böcker också utspelar sig. Innan hon sadlade om till författaryrket jobbade Ellis i många år som florist.