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DI Nikki Galena Books in Order

by Joy EllisLiterature & Fiction

15 books so far (book 16 is due December 22, 2026). They run from Crime on the Fens (2016) to Echoes on the Fens (2025). Rated 4.6 across 22,711 listener reviews.

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Reading order

  1. Crime on the Fens

    Book 1 2016 4.3 (4.2k)

    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 gotten tough on the criminals she believes did this to her. Too tough.

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  2. Shadow over the Fens

    Book 2 2016 4.6 (2.5k)

    Detective Nikki Galena's friend and neighbor meets a tragic end, but there's more to his death than meets the eye. And someone terrible from DS Joseph Easter's past is back.

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  3. Hunted on the Fens

    Book 3 2017 4.6 (1.7k)

    DI Nikki Galena faces her toughest challenge yet. Can she save her team and herself from a cruel and determined adversary who will stop at nothing to harm Nikki and her colleagues? First she must work out who wants revenge against her or…

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  4. Killer on the Fens

    Book 4 2016 4.6 (1.7k)

    DI Nikki Galena faces a personal challenge which will stretch her to the limit. She must fulfill her father's dying wish and discover who the mysterious Eve is.

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  5. Stalker on the Fens

    Book 5 2017 4.6 (1.7k)

    Detective Inspector Nikki Galena's close friend Helen Brook is involved in a serious accident where she is trapped in a collapsed cellar.

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  6. Captive on the Fens

    Book 6 2017 4.6 (1.5k)

    A young woman's body is found in a remote barn on the Fens. Before she was killed, one of her fingers had been cut off. Who is inflicting this violence and why? The young woman in the barn had been kept captive for some time.

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  7. Buried on the Fens

    Book 7 2018 4.6 (1.4k)

    A skeleton is found in a shallow grave in the churchyard. But this was not an official burial. The victim was murdered decades ago.

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  8. Thieves on the Fens

    Book 8 2018 4.7 (1.4k)

    DI Nikki Galena gets a series of anonymous calls. She is told the place, time, and who will die. But the messages are in a secret language used only by villains.

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  9. Fire on the Fens

    Book 9 2018 4.7 (1.2k)

    The Fens are burning, and Detective Nikki Galena faces a cat-and-mouse battle with a killer arsonist. Someone is lighting fires. First they target homes and businesses, but then a body is found at one of the crime scenes.

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  10. Darkness on the Fens

    Book 10 2019 4.6 (1.2k)

    A SERIAL KILLER ON A POISONOUS MISSION PUSHES NIKKI AND HER TEAM TO BREAKING POINT Revellers are flocking into Greenborough for the yearly Dark Greenborough Festival, a three-day event celebrating local folklore, superstition, and the…

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  11. Hidden on the Fens

    Book 11 2020 4.7 (1.2k)

    Detective Joseph Easter's daughter discovers a cottage hidden in some trees on a large fenland farm. Someone has been living there. The farm owner's wife has been receiving sinister pagan artifacts, including a witch's knife.

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  12. Secrets on the Fens

    Book 12 2021 4.6 (956)

    From two-million-selling author Joy Ellis comes one of the most eagerly awaited mysteries this year. One moonlit night, the bodies of two young people are discovered lying entwined on a blanket in the woods.

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  13. Fear on the Fens

    Book 13 2021 4.7 (916)

    From two-million-selling author Joy Ellis comes one of the most highly anticipated mysteries this year. Now. In the beautiful gardens of Shelley House a shocking discovery is made. A blackened hand dangles over the side of a wheelbarrow.

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  14. Graves on the Fens

    Book 14 2023 4.7 (580)

    From two-million-selling author Joy Ellis comes one of the most keenly anticipated mysteries this year. It arrives in the morning. An old-fashioned airmail envelope addressed to Detective Nikki Galena.

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  15. Echoes on the Fens

    Book 15 2025 4.7 (500)

    A brand new Nikki Galena mystery where echoes from the past haunt the twistiest, most complex investigation of her career...

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  16. Strangers on the Fens

    Book 16 Out December 22, 2026

    Joy Ellis presents Book 16 in the DI Nikki Galena series...

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for DI Nikki Galena is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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