Beware the Past
- Published
- 1 January 2017
- Pages
- 359
- ISBN-13
- 9781912106431
- Type
- novel
About this book
Joy Ellis opened the Detective Matt Ballard series with Beware the Past in 2017, a 359-page novel that set the series on a book-a-year (or near enough) publication rhythm.
Key facts about Beware the Past
Joy Ellis wrote Beware the Past, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2017. The book has 359 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781912106431 to find the main one.
Beware the Past is book 1 of 6 in the Detective Matt Ballard series. The series has 6 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Joy Ellis writes DI Nikki Galena, DI Jackman & DS Evans and Ellie McEwan as separate series. Those series sit on our crime fiction and mystery shelves.
About Joy Ellis
Joy Ellis is a British crime novelist born in Kent, England, who worked variously as a florist and a bookshop manager before turning seriously to writing after being encouraged by novelist Sue Townsend at a writers' workshop in Greece. See every Joy Ellis book in order.
Its place in Detective Matt Ballard
Beware the Past is book 1 in the Detective Matt Ballard series. It is followed by Five Bloody Hearts. See the full Detective Matt Ballard reading order.
Joy Ellis's Detective Matt Ballard series is a third parallel line of crime novels, again set within her wider Fenland fictional universe, following Detective Matt Ballard across six books published between 2017 and 2023. Like Ellis's other series, it combines procedural investigation with the isolated, weather-beaten landscape of the Lincolnshire Fens that has become her signature setting.
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781912106431