Marshlight
- Published
- 1 January 2021
- Type
- novel
About this book
Fourth in the series, Marshlight came out in 2021, continuing Joy Ellis's near-annual pace of one Matt Ballard novel a year since 2017, still grounded in the isolated Lincolnshire Fens setting that ties her three parallel crime series together.
Key facts about Marshlight
Joy Ellis wrote Marshlight, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2021.
Marshlight is book 4 of 6 in the Detective Matt Ballard series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with Beware the Past (2017).
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
Marshlight is book 4 in the Detective Matt Ballard series. It follows The Dying Light. It is followed by Trick of the Night. 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.