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JK Ellem Books in Order

Browse all JK Ellem books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, standalone notes, and where to start with No Justice, Ravenwood, and Octagon.

Last updated: July 5, 2026

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Octagon

by JK Ellem

2016

In 2049, law graduate Jon Kobe discovers his ordered world is a lie after a murdered girl exposes the rot beneath Octagon's utopia. Survival means turning against the system that raised him.

Infernum

by JK Ellem

2017

Jon Kobe's fight against Octagon deepens as the Dreadful Eight enter another brutal stage of the Dominion. To survive the next twelve hours, a group of damaged outsiders has to become the heroes nobody expected.

No Justice

by JK Ellem

2017

Ben Shaw steps off a bus in Martha's End, Kansas, and lands in a war between the McAlisters and the Morgans. Missing women, corrupt locals, and a ranch under siege give him every reason to stay.

Soldiers Field

by JK Ellem

2017

In 2032, sixteen death row inmates are forced into the first Dominion trial on an abandoned Harvard campus. Magnolia Gray has no intention of playing by the engineers' rules, and that changes everything.

American Justice

by JK Ellem

2018

After a mass killing over Wyoming, Ben Shaw crosses paths with one of the culprits in rural Utah and gives chase. The hunt spirals into a fast road thriller with the FBI, bikers, and a highway killer closing in.

Cold Justice

by JK Ellem

2018

Sheriff Clare Decker expects a quiet winter morning in Lacy, Colorado. Instead she gets assaults, ghost sightings, missing pets, a stalked teacher, and a body in the snow, just as a storm begins to close in.

Hidden Justice

by JK Ellem

2018

In Erin's Bay, Annie Haywood and Abigail Brenner are both keeping secrets, and someone is watching from the dunes. When Ben Shaw drifts into town, a vanished father and a wealthy community's grudges turn deadly.

A Winter's Kill

by JK Ellem

2019

Former FBI agent Carolyn Ryder returns to Willow Falls, Iowa, for her mother's funeral just as a serial killer known as Robin Hood arrives. With locals refusing her help, she has to trust her instincts and hunt alone.

Mill Point Road

by JK Ellem

2019

Becca Cartwright moves into an exclusive gated community looking for a fresh start, but every woman on Mill Point Road is hiding something. With the Eden Killer closing in, neighborly warmth starts to look a lot like danger.

All Other Sins

by JK Ellem

2020

When Nebraska housewife Diane Miller finds a bag of cash, she sees a way out of her miserable marriage and takes it. The money belongs to dangerous people, and her escape quickly becomes a hunt.

Raw Justice

by JK Ellem

2020

Search and rescue officer Sam Rubino never believed her mother abandoned her. When Ben Shaw arrives in Bright Water, New Hampshire, a cold disappearance opens onto buried secrets, missing tourists, and danger in the mountains.

Fast Justice

by JK Ellem

2021

Ben Shaw boards a bus in Salt Lake City expecting an ordinary ride. Instead, a mysterious woman and a pack of ruthless killers turn the trip into a moving trap where almost nobody is safe.

Ravenwood

by JK Ellem

2021

Haley Perez thought catching the Eden Killer would settle Ravenwood down. Instead, a frozen body, a stalker claiming dark connections, and fresh secrets on Mill Point Road push the town into an even colder nightmare.

An Unkindness of Sinners

by JK Ellem

2022

Summer turns Ravenwood colder than ever as the women of the Sisterhood finally face the hidden evil shaping the town. Old lies, buried secrets, and hard choices drive this tense final showdown.

Audrey Kills Again!

by JK Ellem

2022

Audrey King likes killing bad men and choosing her targets carefully. When she is abducted by the Gray Man, a broken Las Vegas detective hunting the same monster is pulled into a vicious cat-and-mouse chase.

Dark Justice

by JK Ellem

2022

Stopping for coffee in Ravenwood should have been easy. Instead, Ben Shaw joins Haley Perez to search for a missing woman, and the trail leads into the town's tunnels, where something violent is waiting in the dark.

Murder School

by JK Ellem

2022

A string of public killings at New York landmarks draws homicide detective Eve Sommers into a deadly pattern. With a forensic pathologist, an ex-cop, and a hacker, she hunts Ivy League killers treating murder like a game.

Sinful Justice

by JK Ellem

2022

Ben Shaw gets stranded in Ghost Crossing, Nebraska, where a local crime family, a skeptical sheriff, and stories of a missing girl's ghost all point to trouble. He does not believe in hauntings, but something in town is very wrong.

The Sisterhood

by JK Ellem

2022

Spring brings no peace to Ravenwood. As revenge closes in, the women of Mill Point Road are forced to stand together, protect one another, and decide how far they will go to survive.

Where should I start?

If you want the signature small-town thriller: Mill Point RoadRavenwoodThe SisterhoodAn Unkindness of Sinners
If you want a drifter-vigilante lead: No JusticeCold JusticeAmerican Justice
If you want the fastest reads: Fast JusticeSinful JusticeDark Justice
If you want dystopian science fiction: Soldiers FieldOctagonInfernum
If you want standalone suspense: All Other SinsMurder SchoolAudrey Kills Again!

Author bio

JK Ellem was born in London and grew up in England, where books and comics regularly beat homework for his attention. That early reading habit still shows in his fiction. The chapters move fast, the plots keep branching, and there is usually one more secret waiting a page or two ahead.

He came to writing the long way round.

He has said he first tried to write a techno-thriller back in the 1990s, then decided it was terrible and set the whole idea aside for years. Around 2016 he came back to fiction properly, writing part-time while running his accounting practice. That meant early mornings, late nights, and squeezing pages into the edges of family life. His first published novel was Octagon, a dystopian thriller that helped him lock in the pacey, cliffhanger-heavy style he still uses.

From there he moved easily across subgenres. The Ben Shaw novels, beginning with No Justice, are lean vigilante thrillers built around bad towns, lonely roads, and people who need help fast. A Winter's Kill shifts to a former FBI agent facing a serial killer in her hometown. Then Mill Point Road and Ravenwood take suburban comfort, gated communities, and small-town charm, and turn them into something much darker.

Place matters a lot in his books.

Ellem has said he likes to see the places he writes about, take photos, and make notes so the setting feels lived-in on the page. A wrong turn through the Washington County countryside helped spark Mill Point Road, and that habit of grounding stories in real roads, towns, and landscapes gives his thrillers a tactile feel. Readers who like short chapters, multiple viewpoints, strong female characters, and twists that keep moving tend to settle into his work quickly.

His stories often circle the same pressures. Quiet communities hide ugly histories. Outsiders wander into trouble. Bullies and predators get a little too comfortable. Women who look underestimated at first turn out to be tougher than anyone expected. You can see that in Becca Cartwright and Haley Perez in the Ravenwood books, in Carolyn Ryder in A Winter's Kill, and in the hard moral streak running through Ben Shaw's cases.

In 2020, Mill Point Road became a breakout success in Kindle crime and thriller categories. He has also spoken openly about building his career without an agent or a large publishing machine behind him, with his wife Jennifer helping handle marketing and social media. In 2022 he was accepted into Curtis Brown Creative's Writing Your Novel in Six Months course, which says a lot about the way he works. Even after finding readers, he was still looking for ways to sharpen the craft.

These days he splits his time between the US, the UK, and Australia. He has described himself as a proud Englishman in a house full of Australians, and that slightly amused outsider energy feels right for a writer who so often puts newcomers, drifters, and stubborn survivors at the center of his stories.

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