Kate Ellis
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English
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1919. The Derbyshire village of Wenfield is still reeling from four terrible years of war, and now, just when the village is coming to terms with the loss of so many of its sons, the brutal murder of a young girl shatters its hard-won tranquillity. Myrtle Bligh is found stabbed and left in woodland, her mouth slit to accommodate a dead dove, a bird of peace. During the war Myrtle worked as a volunteer nurse with Flora Winsmore, the local doctor's...
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Series
Wesley Peterson volume 26
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Serpent's Point in South Devon is the focus of local legends. The large house on the headland is shrouded in an ancient tale of evil, and when a woman is found strangled on the coastal path nearby, DI Wesley Peterson is called in to investigate. The woman had been house-sitting at Serpent's Point and Wesley is surprised to discover that she was conducting an investigation of her own into unsolved missing persons cases. Could these enquires have led...
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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Taking a short cut home beneath the ruined abbey in the centre of the city, a teenage girl reports stumbling across a body. She also claims to have seen a mysterious nun-like figure watching her from the shadows. But during the subsequent search, no body is found. The girl's inebriated state and her troubled history make the police sceptical of her story, and only Detective Inspector Joe Plantagenet is inclined to believe her. Then a woman is reported...
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Creme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Boothgate House, near the heart of the historic North Yorkshire city of Eborby, is a recently converted apartment building with a sinister past. Solicitor Melanie Hawkes is investigating suspicious events at Havenby Hall when her young daughter is kidnapped. DI Joe Plantagenet suspects the case is far from straightforward.
11) The death season
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English
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When DI Wesley Peterson is summoned to investigate a killing, he assumes that the case is a routine matter. But soon dark secrets and deadly deceptions start to emerge from the victim's past, and Wesley begins to realise that a simple incident of cold-blooded murder is altogether more calculated and complicated that he could ever imagine. Meanwhile, archaeologist Neil Watson is pulled from the historic Paradise Court to a ruined village from the First...
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English
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13 Torland Place is a house with a disturbing past. Not only was it the scene of five terrible murders back in the 19th century, but the place is also linked to the disappearance of two teenage girls. When a student living in the house is found murdered, DI Plantagenet wonders whether her death has anything to do with the house's history.