Tim Ellis: 41 books

Parish and Richards are on a body hunt. Xena – with the help of Charlie Baxter, Cookie and Jenifer – conducts an investigation from her hospital bed to prove Stick is innocent, even though he won’t help himself. Kowalski can’t concentrate on his job with Jerry in a drug-induced coma in the hospital, so he tackles an unsolved cold case from the 1980s called the Red Spider murders.

Parish & Richards are given the case of a gifted boy murdered on the fourteenth green at the local golf course; Richards is also trying to find out if a 1966 diary that she bought at a car boot sale, and written by a captive 15 year-old girl called Loveday, is genuine. Stick and Xena are working...

Richards is seconded to the Serious Crime Analysis Section (SCAS) at Bramshill in Hampshire, but sometimes evil sneaks in before the door is bolted . . .When Epping detectives put Carrie's murder on the pending pile, Parish knows that he must find her killer . . .Jerry goes back to work, and...

If you've read Chapter 1 you'll know that DCI Marshall has taken the place of Chief Walter Day, transferred Kowalski to Traffic Analysis, and is taking an active role in running the investigations... But what you don't know is that DCI Marshall has an agenda! Toadstone finds a body...

Parish & Richards have two cases to solve. One turns out to be unfinished business, the other is very close to home. Angie struggles to come to terms with her new baby. Kowalski is promoted, but someone is out to ruin him. Two detectives join the team, and are allocated the case of five bodies discovered in the grounds of a house.

Quigg and Kline are struggling to fit the pieces of a multiple murder together when the past and present intersect in Room 13 at the Waterbury Hotel in the horror theme park that is Grisly Park.

Parish and Richards investigate a case involving recently pregnant headless bodies disposed of in the sewers. Not only do they struggle to discover the identity of the victims, but they can't find the babies either. Kowalski and Nash investigate the death of a landlady who has been bludgeoned...

Quigg and Kline face their most difficult case yet - unravelling the mystery behind the dismembered body in Bleeding Heart Yard. Kline goes on a journey of discovery with a holocaust survivor, and Lucy has her own trials and tribulations. Also includes a bonus novella: 'The Enigma of Apocalypse Heights' (Quigg 7) at the end.

Here it is at last – the fourth in the Quigg series. Quigg faces his most difficult case yet when over a thousand skulls are discovered beneath Eternity Wharf in Fulham. Quigg and Walsh must investigate the past and the present to find out the truth behind the skulls. Walsh is seriously injured...

A grave containing the skeleton of ten year-old Amy Linton – missing for eight years – is found in Galleyhill Wood in Essex, and then Head of Forensics, Paul Toadstone, finds more skeletons in the same grave, and more graves in the woods. A reporter, who might have known something about the dead...

The sequel to Body 13 has Quigg and Heather Walsh (his new temporary partner) trying to identify a serial killer who carves biblical references into his child victims.As they struggle to solve the riddle of the twenty-three missing children over the past sixty years, a psychic from Canada arrives...

Parish and Richards are given the baffling case of a man drained of blood and left suspended in a Community Centre in the position of The Hanging Man from a pack of Tarot cards with a number on a piece of paper inserted into his heart, but this murder is only the beginning . . . Stick and Xena...

The new Chief arrives – DCI Nigel Nibley – who hands out the new murder investigations. Parish and Richards are given the case of a murdered ten year-old boy, but a three-link chain tattoo under his top lip hints at something more than an abduction, sexual assault and murder. It becomes a lot...

DI Quigg and his temporary partner PC Mavourneen Duffy hunt for a stolen corpse from the mortuary at Hammersmith Hospital, which leads to the discovery of an exclusive paedophile ring called the Apostles who traffic in children. Quigg's private life gradually becomes as complicated as the investigation when he becomes embroiled in a ménage à trois.