Meg Jolly Books In Order

Publication Order of DI Daniel Ward Books

Meg Jolly
USA Today Bestselling Author Meg Jolly pens the “DI Daniel Ward” series which is set in her windswept and wild home county of Yorkshire, where she was born, raised, and continues to live with her family.

When she is not killing off (imaginary) people, she is typically spending time with her family, curled up with a good book and a cup of tea, or out walking on the beautiful moors of West Yorkshire.

This is where she sets many of her books, and she often draws from her personal observations and experiences while creating her suspenseful stories.

Meg is a talented writer that knows how to keep her readers guessing until the very end. For those that enjoy edge-of-your-seat thriller novels, you should check out one of her novels.

“The Truth We Can’t Hide” is the first novella in the “DI Daniel Ward” series and was released in 2021. Village murders should be the easy ones. But they aren’t.

DI Daniel Ward gets called out to a murder in the pretty village of Silsden, he is expecting an easy to solve domestic case. It’s a tragic loss of life that leaves a wife without a husband, a young baby without a dad, and a village without their devoted doctor.

Everybody’s a suspect, but the trouble is that he cannot pin a single one of them. Making things worse, he is unsure of who’s guilty, and who it is that he’s supposed to be protecting. Everybody Ward suspects is also hiding a secret, however the killer is not yet done. Ward will have to learn the truth behind all of these lies before time runs out for yet another victim.

“The Past We Run From” is the first novel in the “DI Daniel Ward” series and was released in 2021. A child killer on the loose, a missing girl, and time is running out. When a toddler goes missing right in the middle of a bustling Bradford park in broad daylight.

Detective Daniel Ward is handed the case. It should be an open and shut investigation, yet the hours just tick on by, and Millie Thompson is still nowhere to be found. So there is just one conclusion that DI Ward is able to think of: she was taken.

When a known child murderer is spotted in the same vicinity, Ward fears the absolute worst. Could this infamous monster struck yet again right under his nose? He must catch up to the one and only lead that he’s got, before the infamous Hunters (vigilante, merciless, justice seekers that will pursue retribution at any cost) catch up with his suspect first. And if they are successful, DI Ward might never be able to find Millie alive again.

Readers found this to be an incredibly fast paced read with plenty of twists and exactly the right amount of criminal investigation.

“The Revenge We Seek” is the second novel in the “DI Daniel Ward” series and was released in 2021. Join your absolute favorite Yorkshire detective DI Ward on his next captivating murder investigation.

When a woman’s found savagely murdered right outside of the peaceful town of Bingley, it causes shock ripples throughout the community. DI Ward was hoping for swift justice, however the forensics deliver quite the twist that he had not been expecting.

During the middle of the autumn burglary season, as the Varga case still runs rings all around everybody and his personal life is in tatters, an unsolved murder is really the last thing that Ward needs the DCI breathing down his neck about. Pulled in every direction, the HMET team stretches much too thin, and who is going to be able to slip in between the cracks?

Another woman vanishes, however by the time Ward and his team are able to connect these two cases, it is a race against the clock to stop a power hungry killer that is hellbent on revenge from striking yet again. How will DI Ward catch a killer that hides in plain view behind his ordinary face?

“The Mistakes We Deny” is the third novel in the “DI Daniel Ward” series and was released in 2021. Yorkshire’s golden boy is dead, and it makes everybody glad.

A local business tycoon is murdered, which stuns the sleepy town of Skipton, however nobody’s mourning. Behind the multi-million pound veneer is a guy that is hated by all. DI Ward quickly has got a line of suspects longer than a rush hour traffic jam out on the A629, every one of whom have scandalous, shocking, and shameful secrets that they are attempting to keep to themselves, however which one is also a murderer as well?

His team scatters across all of Yorkshire attempting to find some answers, whilst overseas, there is a breakthrough in the major Varga investigation finally. DI Ward has to double down to not just bring the international crime lord to justice, but the murderer on his doorstep, before they can kill again to cover their tracks.

Taking readers on a thrill ride through picturesque Yorkshire to Settle to Harrogate and beyond. These novels are essential for anybody wondering what dark secrets are hiding among Yorkshire’s picturesque rolling moors.

“The Justice We Serve” is the fourth novel in the “DI Daniel Ward” series and was released in 2021. Some murders are so clever that they fool everybody. Well, almost.

Nowak and Ward get assigned to investigate a death just outside of Keighley and once the pathology report shows up, more than a few eyebrows get raised. While more victims continue to drop, Ward realizes that he is onto this serial killer with a list they must hit. Only, this one is so very insidious, that their tracks are next to impossible to trace. Ward must find this culprit, before another victim winds up dead.

As if that were not enough, there is a breakthrough on the Varga caseload delivers to them a target of such a high value that Ward will do anything to set this one in his crosshairs. Only trouble is that Ward isn’t done with Varga just yet, and Varga is not done with Ward.