Coming Soon: 'Strangers on the Fens' by Joy Ellis

 

Published by Joffe Books

17 November 2026.

Book 16 in the Nikki Galena series

Newlywed Detectives Nikki Galena and Joseph Easter barely have time to settle into married life before murder calls.

The body of elderly jeweller Jerry Glover is found sprawled across the counter in his high street shop. Everyone assumes it's natural causes.

Nikki knows better.

Hours before his death, Jerry contacted the police to say he had vital information about a young man who vanished without trace a year earlier.

Then a second body is discovered in a lonely fen lane. Immaculately dressed. Garrotted with a wire. A professional execution.

Both investigations point towards Marsh Keaton, the newly-renovated country estate where Nikki's own daughter-in-law works.

But that's not all. In the nearby village of Keaton Eaudyke, frightened residents report eerie lights in the marshes, strangers appearing under cover of darkness - and a single blood-curdling scream that shatters the night.

Nikki reckons there's something very nasty going on inside Marsh Keaton. She and her team are in a race to uncover the truth before more victims disappear.

Joy Ellis was born in Kent but spent most of her working life in London and Surrey. She was an apprentice florist to Constance Spry Ltd, a prestigious Mayfair shop that throughout the Sixties and Seventies teemed with both royalty and ‘real’ celebrities. She swore that one day she would have a shop of her own. It took until the early Eighties, but she did it. Sadly, the recession wiped it out, and she embarked on a series of weird and wonderful jobs; the last one being a bookshop manager

Joy now lives in a village in the Lincolnshire Fens with her partner, Jacqueline. She had been writing mysteries for years but never had the time to take it seriously. Now as her partner is a highly decorated retired police officer; her choice of genre was suddenly clear. She has set her crime thrillers in the misty fens.   

www.joyellis.info