Kate Ellis, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-27460-3
In her third mystery featuring Trinidadian police sergeant Wesley Peterson (after 2000's The Armada Boy), Ellis proves herself once again adept at linking a contemporary British police procedural to a crime from centuries in the past that neatly
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Kate Ellis, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-27454-2
As in her three previous mysteries (An Unhallowed Grave, etc.) featuring Det. Sgt. Wesley Peterson and Insp. Gerry Hefferman, Ellis skillfully interweaves ancient and contemporary crimes in an impeccably composed tale. Excerpts at the head of each...
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Kate Ellis, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-30037-1
Once again British author Ellis smoothly blends old and recent crimes in an archeological mystery featuring Det. Sergeant Wesley Peterson and his fellow Tradmouth (Devon) police officers. Detective Constable Rachel Tracey in particular makes a...
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Kate Ellis, Author . Piatkus $29.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-7499-0932-1
In Ellis's run-of-the-mill second procedural to feature North Yorkshire Det. Insp. Joe Plantaganet (after 2009's Seeking the Dead
), Plantagenet, who carries with him the de rigueur tragic backstory (i.e., the loss of his wife in an...
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Kate Ellis, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-25198-7
When American WWII veteran Norman Openheim gets stabbed to death while visiting a ruined chapel late one night outside Bereton, England, Det. Sergeant Wesley Peterson has no lack of leads in this absorbing police procedural. First on the suspect...
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Kate Ellis, Author Thomas Dunne Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-20562-1
Enough promise survives this choppy debut to warrant hope for future mysteries by Ellis. British Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson's transfer from London to Tradmouth in South Devon promises a fresh start near his wife's hometown. Peterson, a black
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Kate Ellis. Severn/Crème de la Crime, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-78029-027-0
A former insane asylum, recently converted into an apartment complex in Eborby, Yorkshire, provides the backdrop for Ellis’s middling fourth mystery featuring Det. Insp. Joe Plantagenet (after 2011’s Kissing the Demons). When a six-year-old girl,...
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Kate Ellis. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-78029-073-7
While walking home from a night out with friends in the Yorkshire city of Eborby, Debby Telerhaye stumbles across what appears to be the body of a woman, possibly a nun, in Ellis’s spooky fifth Joe Plantagenet mystery (after 2012’s Watching the...
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