🎯 Where Should I Start?
ⓘ About Emmy Ellis
Emmy Ellis is a mystery fiction and non-fiction book with over a dozen book titles under her name. She’s also a mother of five and a grandmother to one. She worked as an editor before dedicating her life to full-time writing. She is also the Head of Art at Total-E-Bound. Cold is the Killer Cold is the Killer is the first book in the DI Bethany Smith series by Emmy Ellis. It’s an exciting story with plenty of twists and turns that will leave you yearning for more. At the core of this story is a graphic, deep-seated police procedural story with a fallible and intriguingly tenacious main character DI Bethany Smith. The author knows how to balance police investigative work precisely with psychology games and teamwork.
All Book Series by Emmy Ellis
The Cold Call Killer / Cold Is The Caller
Series opener · book 1 of 10 · published 2019
The Sledgehammer Killer / The Last Hurrah
Latest in the series · book 10 of 10 · published 2024
The Woman on Mulberry Lane / Dead in the Dirt
Series opener · book 1 of 4 · published 2020
The Hassle on Vicar's Gate / Dead Reckoning
Latest in the series · book 4 of 4 · published 2025
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Emmy Ellis?
Emmy Ellis is a mystery fiction and non-fiction book with over a dozen book titles under her name. She’s also a mother of five and a grandmother to one. She worked as an editor before dedicating her life to full-time writing.
Which Emmy Ellis series should I start with?
The best place to start is the D.I. Tracy Collier series, the earliest of Emmy Ellis's multi-book series: it opens with Gutted / All Those Lies (2018) and runs to 6 books across 2018–2019, ending with All the Light / Cracked (2019). Emmy Ellis's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Emmy Ellis written?
Emmy Ellis has 121 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2014 and 2026. 106 of them belong to 14 named series — the largest being The Cardigan Estate series with 47 books — and 15 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Emmy Ellis's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Emmy Ellis's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are D.I. Tracy Collier (2018–2019, 6 books), D.I. Kane Barnett (2018, 1 book) and D.I. Bethany Smith (2019–2024, 10 books), plus 11 more.
How are Emmy Ellis's books organised into series?
This guide splits Emmy Ellis's 121 books into 14 named series and 15 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: The Cardigan Estate (47 books, 2020–2025); D.I. Bethany Smith (10 books, 2019–2024); The Dead Speak (7 books, 2019–2020); Barrington Patch (6 books, 2021); D.I. Tracy Collier (6 books, 2018–2019), plus 9 further series.