Detective Nikki Galena Series

Crime on the Fens (Book 1)

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 Detective
DI 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 Partner
DS 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 Enemy
A 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 Setting
The 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.

Shadow Over the Fens (Book 2)

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?

Hunted on the Fens (Book 3)  

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?

• Author  -  Joy Ellis
• Series / Key Character  -  Detective Nikki Galena
• Illustrated  -  No
• Age -  Adult
• ISBN  -  various
• Publisher  -  Joffe Books
• Date  -  n/a
• Format  -  Paperback
• Pages - n/a
• Size  -  20 x 13 cm
• Weight - 225g