Tim Ellis Books in Order

On Earth 5036, Gracie overhears a secret about a library that travels through time and learns she may be the key to saving human knowledge. To do it, she must face a perilous journey and the threat of the Beasts.

Temujin's father dies, his family is abandoned on the steppe, and the boy who will become Genghis Khan is forced into a brutal fight for survival. This first volume follows his childhood, enslavement, and early hunger for vengeance.

A varied short-story collection that mixes humor, sadness, and reflection. Ellis moves from comic pieces to more emotional ones, giving the book the feel of a box of keepsakes taken down and opened again.

This historical novel follows Temujin as he rises to power with the help of Wang Khan and begins crushing the enemies who stand between him and a united Mongol nation. It is a story of ambition, warfare, and ruthless state-building.

What starts as a routine stabbing throws Jed Parish and new recruit Mary Richards into the hunt for a serial killer who leaves numbered tokens in his victims' mouths. To solve it, they must uncover the dark past of an abandoned orphanage.

A stolen corpse from Hammersmith Hospital's mortuary sends Quigg and new recruit Mavourneen Duffy into a case involving missing children and an elite abuse ring called the Apostles. Quigg's private life becomes almost as dangerous as the investigation.

Women are being murdered and mutilated in Hammersmith, with messages in ancient languages pinned to the bodies. DCI James Harte must work with a cryptographer, a priest, and a biblical scholar before the killer's secret spreads further.

Quigg and Heather Walsh hunt a killer who carves biblical references into dead children and may be tied to decades of disappearances. As the case widens, a Canadian psychic arrives and Quigg's war with the Apostles gets even messier.

A serial killer returns to slaughter a fourth family, and ex-detective Cole Randall is released from an asylum after being blamed for the earlier murders, including those of his own family. He wants revenge, whatever it costs.

The skeleton of a girl missing for eight years is found in Galleyhill Wood, then more graves are uncovered nearby. Parish and Richards are drawn into a case of murdered children, secret organizations, and vengeance that will not stay buried.

When a body in a trunk turns out to echo a murder from the 1950s, suspended or not, Parish cannot let it go. He and Toadstone investigate off the books while Richards pieces together a copycat pattern that promises more deaths.

Quigg and Sergeant Lulu Begone must stop a festive serial killer who stages murders around the verses of The Twelve Days of Christmas. Each new victim brings the next gruesome clue, and Quigg's career is on the line.

A killer starts murdering again after seven quiet years, hanging mutilated women upside down and pinning ancient-language messages to their bodies. Parish and Richards must stop him while office politics and personal strain close in.

Inigo Morgan and Tigris Griffiths investigate the murder of a woman found in her Pembrokeshire cottage with her lips sewn together and her heart missing. The trail is grim, winding, and anything but straightforward.

A trip to Quantico for an FBI conference drops Parish and Richards into the path of an American serial killer known as the Painter. Back home, the Kowalskis face a devastating accusation that threatens to tear their family apart.

Retired Tom Gabriel is pulled back into the world when a mother asks him to find her missing daughter, Mercy, an investigative journalist who vanished while looking into missing children. He takes cub reporter Rae with him and starts asking dangerous questions.

A pattern in missing-person cases gives Parish and Richards a new line of inquiry, leading them across Essex to a man obsessed with his family. At the same time, personal losses and unfinished questions keep pressing in on the team.

Recently pregnant headless bodies are found in the sewers, and Parish and Richards cannot identify the women or the missing babies. The case is brutal, tangled, and deeply personal for more than one member of the team.

Parish and Richards are balancing two cases at once, and one of them hits painfully close to home. As Angie struggles with new motherhood, another team is assigned to the discovery of five bodies in a house's grounds.

More than a thousand skulls are discovered beneath Eternity Wharf, and Quigg is handed one of his strangest cases yet. An underground chase, a badly injured partner, and the return of the Apostles keep the pressure rising.

The death of a child in Hangman's Wood points toward a wider pattern of abductions by someone calling himself the Removal Man. Parish also receives a severed tongue in the post, and Kowalski is forced to chase the truth across Wales.

Josiah Dark has a partner he does not want, a journalist who seems to bend the laws of physics, and somebody letting himself into his house. He also has to stop whoever is leaving gory Christmas presents around Greater Manchester.

Molly Stone returns to work to investigate a crucified priest, while Cole Randall, now a private investigator, looks into a couple's disappearance from the Blackwall Tunnel. An old case resurfaces and knots both investigations together.

Parish and Richards hunt a killer who carves broken hearts into women before murdering them. A severed hand, a frightened client, and the unstoppable Cookie make an already messy investigation even busier.

Quigg and Tallie Kline try to fit together a multiple murder puzzle that seems to connect past and present in Room 13 of the Waterbury Hotel. The setting, a horror theme park called Grisly Park, gives the case an extra nasty edge.

A practical reference book for writers, built as an A to Z of emotions, attitudes, and feelings matched with body language. It is designed to be dipped into quickly when you need a physical detail that fits the scene.

Parish and Richards are sent to Cyprus to find out whether a British Army officer is a murderer or a convenient scapegoat. Back in England, Jerry's disappearance pushes Kowalski into a desperate search of his own.

What looks like the rape and murder of a woman in her own flat may be the work of a serial killer. Elsewhere, a hospital confession and a strange smell in a high-rise building open into very different kinds of danger.

Grieving DI Cyrus Kane retreats to an isolated cottage in Cornwall for a quiet Christmas after his wife's death. The peace he wants does not last, and the holiday quickly darkens into something far more dangerous.

A gifted boy is found murdered on a golf course, and Parish and Richards begin pulling at the threads around his life. Richards is also drawn to a 1966 diary that may have been written by a captive girl, and it will not leave her alone.

Parish and Richards are on a body hunt while Xena tries to clear Stick from a hospital bed. With Jerry in a coma, Kowalski throws himself into an old cold case and finds more than he bargained for.

A dismembered body in Bleeding Heart Yard gives Quigg and Kline their toughest case yet. While they chase answers, Kline follows a painful thread with a Holocaust survivor and Lucy faces troubles of her own.

Now licensed as a PI, Tom Gabriel takes on the search for a missing husband and finds that every answer makes less sense than the last. Rae is working a John Doe case of her own and angers people with real power to hide the truth.

Back from Cornwall, Cyrus Kane and Jenny Wells are handed the murder of a top surgeon while Kane keeps digging into his wife's death. Soon it looks as if the same killer may want both detectives dead.

Three children metal detecting in a field find a fourteen-year-old girl buried in a frozen grave. Josiah Dark expects to work the case alone, until a reporter turns up knowing far more than she should.

While Richards is seconded to the Serious Crime Analysis Section, Parish cannot let Carrie's unsolved murder rest. Around them, a confession case, a risky legal errand, and a sealed letter from Italy all stir up fresh trouble.

Major Augustus Rillington, retired from the 17th Royal Lancers, is invited to Camelot for a Christmas Grail Quest. What sounds like a festive game quickly reveals a far more dangerous mystery.

Tom Gabriel goes back to Staten Island to find out who killed a bag lady named Horty, only to find a sniper on his trail. At the same time, Rae uncovers clues to a string of abductions stretching back fifty years.

With a new temporary partner from Vice, Quigg investigates a murdered woman in Highgate and rumors that a vampire is feeding in the cemetery. At the same time, Lucy's return puts her directly in someone's sights.

A man drained of blood is found posed like the Hanging Man, with a message pinned inside him. That is only the start, as Parish and Richards and the wider team are pulled into a series of violent, baffling murders.

A shortage of murders sends Parish and Richards into the search for a missing eight-year-old girl, but the case quickly turns darker than expected. At the same time, a routine stakeout drifts into something far more sinister.

Parish and Richards are given the case of a beautiful, mutilated young woman who seems to have walked away from her own life. Other investigations into old abuse, murder, and vanished prostitutes turn this into one of the team's most tangled books.

A murdered ten-year-old boy sends Parish and Richards into a case that looks like abduction and assault, until a hidden tattoo and a sealed DNA match suggest something much darker. The closer they get, the more protected the truth seems to be.

Single mother DI Effie Archer is juggling a bully for a boss, too little support, and five brutal murder cases at once. As the pressure mounts, even her coping mechanisms begin to look dangerous.

Quigg and Tallie Kline have no problem getting into Apocalypse Heights. Getting out again is another matter in this short, claustrophobic entry in the series.

Seven children vanish from the Ragged Children's Home in a single month, and Quigg is told they are probably runaways. He and his unsettling new partner soon find something far more sinister behind the disappearances.

A male corpse missing vital organs is found at a Pembrokeshire recycling plant, and Inigo Morgan starts by suspecting organ trafficking. The deeper he goes, the clearer it becomes that greed is only part of the story.

A murdered young woman with a heart carved into her forehead leads Parish and Richards to a prolific serial killer known as the Lover. As outside specialists descend on the case, other investigators are dealing with a family massacre and a suspicious missing-person inquiry.

A single thigh bone found on waste ground pulls Parish and Richards into a larger and uglier discovery. Around them, other teams tackle a sex-shop murder, an old-memory conviction, and a death on a Norfolk beach that may not be suicide at all.

A man's body is dragged from the Peak Forest Canal with a wooden stake hammered through his heart. Josiah Dark and Annie Lake follow the case into bribery, corruption, and murder rooted fifteen years in the past.

It is Christmas Day, there has been a murder, and a flu epidemic has emptied Prestwich Police Station. DC Mata Hari is the only detective left standing, with only a brand-new PCSO to help her solve her first case.

A dismembered woman in Kielder Forest forces two police forces into a joint task force, and Harriet Hogg must work with Tanner Edge, a man she has history with. The killer may also be tied to a case from twenty years earlier.

A family slaughter at a farm looks like revenge, but the deeper Parish and Richards dig, the murkier the motive becomes. Another team finds a torso in a hidden cellar room, and old secrets begin surfacing from every side.

Tom Gabriel is asked to explain mysterious Ellis Island postcards, help solve a locked-room disappearance at the St. Augustine Lighthouse, and look into missing children in Colorado. When Rae disappears too, the case becomes painfully personal.

With Richards away, Parish is paired with the impatient Evie Maddison on the case of a solicitor buried in a shallow grave. Elsewhere, Xena and Stick uncover a mummified body in a wall, then more buried dead at the same property.

As Rae investigates rising crime in St. Augustine, a caller promises he is going to kill her. Tom takes on an apparent suicide, then finds both of his daughters in terrible danger and has to move fast on several fronts at once.

Quigg agrees to investigate a supposedly haunted house in Southwark and is then handed a second case involving two decapitated bodies. With leads scarce, he is forced to make a dangerous bargain with a reporter.

Parish and Richards are sent to the British Virgin Islands to track a child serial killer, and even getting there is dangerous. Back home, what looks like a simple university murder begins opening into something far more complicated.

A holiday in Santorini turns into a nightmare when Angie vanishes the morning after arrival. While Parish works with the local police to find her, Richards is left with cold cases at home and strict orders not to dig too deep.

A tortured man is found in a ditch the day after he walks free, and Parish and Richards are thrown into a case that quickly becomes a national scandal. As outrage builds, the investigation widens to an abduction and a search for vigilante justice.

Sir Arthur Quinton is murdered in his own bedroom during a garden party at Darcy Court, leaving Parish and Richards with a closed-circle puzzle. At the same time, Xena and Stick are drawn into the sabotage of a light plane and the shadow of an old unsolved case.

In 1948 Los Angeles, Katie Brazil comes looking for the man who killed her sister Annie. To get answers, she first has to save the exhausted detective who once handled the case and has nearly given up on life.

Parish and Richards investigate a strangled woman left standing by the River Lee, a gravestone tied to her ankles. Tracing her final hours uncovers a hidden past and leads the case far beyond Essex, all the way to Berlin.

Ray Kowalski, Bronwyn, Jerry, Joe, Bee, and Sally Hackett juggle several investigations at once, from a postwar mystery linked to the Warsaw Ghetto to a suspicious death and missing women on Canada's Highway 16. It is a spin-off full of grief, travel, and hard-to-prove truths.

A semi-naked young woman is found beside the A10, apparently pregnant and carrying only a necklace marked with a biblical verse and the name 'Tom'. Parish and Richards soon discover a case that is far more complicated than it first looks.

An emaciated body found in Hatfield Forest puts Parish and Richards under the control of a micromanaging senior officer. As the official case drags on, strange noises next door and an older investigation refuse to stay in the background.

A dismembered body in an abandoned cesspit becomes three bodies, then eight, as Parish and Richards dig deeper. Old child murders, internet sleuths, and sealed hospital records pull the case into the past as well as the present.

A boy's body is found in a cardboard box at Rye Meads Nature Reserve, but the DNA on the corpse matches nobody. While Parish and Richards hunt for answers, another team's discovery in Coopersale Woods raises fresh doubts about what evidence can be trusted.