5/21/2023 0 Comments Kate brian books in order![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She seems to have no real enemies and yet someone killed her. Pauline Brent was the local doctor’s receptionist, respected and well liked. When the body of a middle aged woman is found hanging from a yew tree in Stokeworthy Churchyard, the police suspect foul play. When another, more recent body is found, the circumstances surrounding the child’s disappearance become more complex, and Wesley is increasingly convinced that the age-old motives of jealousy, sexual obsession, and desperate longing for a child are behind the crimes&151 ancient and modern&151 that he must solve soon if further tragedy is to be averted. It seems to be a tragic murder nonetheless, for the bones are those of a strangled young woman and a newborn baby. ![]() The tension is mounting when a body is found&151 but to Wesley’s relief it is turned up at Neil’s dig and is more than 400 years old. One of the first people he bumps into is an old friend&151 Neil is heading an archaeological dig at a Tudor merchant’s house, and Wesley has to tear himself away to become involved in a major search for a missing child. Kate Ellis’s wonderfully addictive series of West Country-set crime novels feature Wesley Peterson, one of Devon’s first black detectives A black policeman from the Met might expect to meet some resistance, when he’s transferred to a West Country seaside town&151 but, for DS Wesley Peterson, it’s like coming home. ![]()
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