Kate Ellis

Derbyshire, 1921. When an MP goes missing in a Derbyshire village, Scotland Yard detective Albert Lincoln is sent to investigate. A grim discovery has been made in a cave next to an ancient stone circle: the naked body of a middle-aged man mutilated beyond recognition. The local police assume it is the missing politician but when Albert arrives in Wenfield he begins to have doubts. Two years earlier he conducted another traumatic murder investigation...

On a stormy night in December, a tree is blown down on an isolated Devon farm. And when the fallen tree is dragged away a rucksack is found caught amongst the roots - and next to it is a human skeleton. The discovery of the body and the rucksack revives memories for DI Wesley Peterson. A young hitchhiker who went missing twelve years ago was last seen carrying a similar backpack. Suddenly a half-forgotten cold case has turned into a murder investigation....

A missing teenager, a murdered rock star and an old painting are somehow linked, providing Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson and his boss, Gerry Heffernan, with one of their most intriguing cases yet.

When archeaologist Neil Watson stumbles on a recently deceased body he calls on his old friend DS Wesley Peterson for help. As the two men set out to solve the mystery, they come across various characters who could have motives for murder.

DS Wesley Peterson, newly arrived in the West Country town of Tradmouth, has his hands full when a child goes missing and a young woman is brutally murdered on a lonely cliff path. Then his old friend, archaeologist Neil Watson, unearths the skeletons of a woman and a newborn baby in the cellar of an ancient merchant's house nearby. As they begin to investigate the murders, Wesley starts to suspect that these deaths, centuries apart, may be linked...

When Kirsten Harbourn is found strangled and naked on her wedding day, DI Wesley Peterson makes some alarming discoveries. Kirsten was being pursued by an obsessed stalker and she had dark secrets her doting fiance, Peter, knew nothing about.

When a woman is burned to death in a Devonshire field, it seems like a case of mistaken identity. Until DI Wesley Peterson learns of a legend involving a French woman who died there in the same way in the thirteenth century. When Wesley discovers that records of a previous site excavation have vanished, and that two archaeologists involved in the dig died in tragic circumstances, it seems clear that there is a link between the mysterious legend and...

A teenage girl is strangled and left for dead by an attacker she describes as having the head of a dog. Then another body is found mutilated and wrapped in a white linen sheet. DI Wesley Peterson suspects that the killer is performing an ancient ritual linked to Anubis, the jackal-headed Egyptian god of death and mummification.

In the 1950s Singmass Close was the scene of four murders committed by a killer known as the 'Doll Strangler', who was never brought to justice. Following the discovery of another body, DI Joe Plantagenet wonders whether a copycat killer is at work, or whether the Doll Strangler himself has returned.