Kate Ellis

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  • Bibliography:
    47 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1999
  • Latest Book:
    August 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The Albert Lincoln Trilogy

1 - A High Mortality of Doves (Jan-2016)
2 - The Boy Who Lived with the Dead (Jan-2019)
3 - The House of the Hanged Woman (Jan-2020)

A Joe Plantagenet Murder Mystery

1 - Seeking the Dead (Dec-2008)
2 - Playing with Bones (Jul-2009)
3 - Kissing the Demons (Nov-2011)
4 - Watching the Ghosts (Sep-2012)
5 - Walking by Night (Jul-2015)

Lady Katheryn Bulkeley

1 - The Devil's Priest (May-2006)

A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel

1 - The Merchant's House (May-1999)
2 - The Armada Boy (Jul-2000)
3 - An Unhallowed Grave (May-2001)
4 - The Funeral Boat (Jul-2002)
5 - The Bone Garden (Jul-2003)
6 - A Painted Doom (2002)
7 - The Skeleton Room (Apr-2010)
8 - The Plague Maiden (Jun-2010)
9 - A Cursed Inheritance (Aug-2010)
10 - The Marriage Hearse (Jul-2010)
11 - The Shining Skull (Jul-2010)
12 - The Blood Pit (Jul-2010)
13 - A Perfect Death (Apr-2009)
14 - The Flesh Tailor (Jun-2010)
15 - The Jackal Man (Apr-2011)
16 - The Cadaver Game (Feb-2012)
17 - The Shadow Collector (Apr-2013)
18 - The Shroud Maker (May-2014)
19 - The Death Season (Mar-2015)
20 - The House of Eyes (Feb-2016)
21 - The Mermaid's Scream (Feb-2017)
22 - The Mechanical Devil (Feb-2018)
23 - Dead Man's Lane (Apr-2019)
24 - The Burial Circle (Aug-2020)
25 - The Stone Chamber (Jan-2021)
26 - Serpent's Point (Aug-2022)
27 - The Killing Place (Aug-2023)
28 - Coffin Island (Aug-2024)

Book List in Order: 47 titles

  • The Merchant's House

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 1

    DS Wesley Peterson, newly arrived in the West Country port 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...

  • The Armada Boy

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 2

    'A powerful story of loss, malice and deception' Ann CleevesWhen archaeologist Neil Watson finds the body of an American veteran of the D-Day landings in the ruins of an old chapel, he turns to his old friend DS Wesley Peterson for help.Both men are ...

  • An Unhallowed Grave

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 3

    A twisted murder mirrors a dark legend . . . When the body of Pauline Brent is found hanging from a yew tree in a local graveyard, DS Wesley Peterson immediately suspects foul play. Then history provides him with a clue. Wesley's archaeologist friend...

  • A Painted Doom

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    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 6

    'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The TimesTeenager Lewis Hoxworthy discovers a disturbing painting in a medieval barn; a find which excites archaeologist Neil Watson, who is excavating an ancient manor house nearby. But when a ma...

  • The Funeral Boat

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 4

    When a skeleton is discovered on a small farm, DS Wesley Peterson, a keen amateur archaeologist is intrigued by the possibility that it is a Viking corpse, buried in keeping with ancient traditions. But he has a more urgent crime to solve - the disap...

  • The Bone Garden

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 5
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    Past and present come together in Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson's latest case. In the course of restoring the gardens at historic Earlsacre Hall, three skeletons are uncovered. The bones appear to be centuries old, but they hold an interest for ...

  • The Devil's Priest

    Lady Katheryn Bulkeley - 1

    In 1539, King Henry VIII is completing his destruction of England's monasteries & the ripples of change are felt even in Liverpool. A pregnant novice nun, Agnes Moore, ejected from her convent & staying with relatives, claims to have been attacked by...

  • Seeking the Dead

    A Joe Plantagenet Murder Mystery - 1

    When Carmel Hennessy begins a new job in North Yorkshire, she finds the historic city of Eborby gripped by fear. A killer is on the prowl - a killer who binds and asphyxiates his victims before leaving their bodies in isolated churchyards. The press ...

  • A Perfect Death

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 13

    'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The TimesWhen a woman is burned to death in Grandal Field in Devon, it looks like it could be a case of mistaken identity. Until DI Wesley Peterson learns of a legend involving a woman who died in...



  • Playing with Bones

    A Joe Plantagenet Murder Mystery - 2

    On a grey October morning, the strangled body of a teenager is found in the North Yorkshire city of Eborby, a mutilated doll lying by her side.Singmass Close, where the girl is found, has a famously sinister past. Reputedly haunted by the ghosts of c...

  • The Skeleton Room

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 7

    'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The TimesWhen builders converting Chadleigh Hall, a former school, into a luxury hotel discover a skeleton in a sealed room, DI Wesley Peterson is called in to investigate.Soon Wesley has a second...

  • The Flesh Tailor

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 14

    'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The TimesWhen Dr James Dalcott is shot dead in his cottage it looks very much like an execution. And as DI Wesley Peterson begins piecing together the victim's life, he finds that the well-liked ...

  • The Plague Maiden

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 8

    'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The TimesA stir is caused in Tradmouth when a letter arrives at the police station claiming that the man convicted of murdering the Vicar of Belsham is innocent. DI Wesley Peterson already has his...

  • The Blood Pit

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 12

    'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The TimesDI Wesley Peterson has never witnessed such a bizarre crime scene. A man has been brutally murdered by two precise wounds to his neck and his body drained of blood.It seems that the victi...

  • The Marriage Hearse

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 10

    'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The TimesA young woman is found strangled hours before her wedding. DI Wesley Peterson discovers that Kirsten Harbourn was being pursued by an obsessed stalker and had dark secrets her fiancé kne...

  • The Shining Skull

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 11

    'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The TimesLittle Marcus Fallbrook was kidnapped in 1976 and, when he never returned home, by his grieving family assumed the worst. Now, thirty years later, teenager Leah Wakefield has disappeared ...

  • A Cursed Inheritance

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 9

    'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The TimesThe brutal massacre of the Harford family at Potwoolstan Hall in 1985 shocked the country and passed into local folklore. Now, twenty years later, a journalist researching the case has be...

  • The Jackal Man

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 15

    'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The TimesA teenage girl is strangled and left for dead on a lonely country lane in Devon. The police are baffled when she describes her attacker as having the head of a dog, but when the body of a...

  • Kissing the Demons

    A Joe Plantagenet Murder Mystery - 3

    Thirteen Torland Place is a house with a disturbing past. When a student living there is found murdered, DI Joe Plantagenet wonders whether her death has anything to do with its grim history. Then other, similar deaths come to light and he fears that...



  • The Cadaver Game

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 16

    'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The TimesThe decaying body of a woman is discovered in a suburban house in South Devon, following an anonymous tip off to the police. DI Wesley Peterson has problems establishing the woman's ident...

  • Watching the Ghosts

    A Joe Plantagenet Murder Mystery - 4

    DI Joe Plantagenet investigates a house with a disturbing past in the fourth of this popular police procedural series. Boothgate House has a sinister past. Once an asylum for the insane, serial killer Peter Brockmeister was sent there on his relea...

  • The Shadow Collector

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 17

    'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The TimesLilith Benley and her mother, rumoured to be witches, were convicted of the brutal murder of two teenage girls eighteen years ago. Shortly after Lilith is released from prison, a young wo...

  • The Shroud Maker

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 18

    'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The TimesA year on from the mysterious disappearance of Jenny Bercival, DI Wesley Peterson is called in when the body of a strangled woman is found floating out to sea in South Devon.The discovery...

  • The Death Season

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 19

    'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The TimesWhen DI Wesley Peterson is summoned to investigate a killing, he assumes that the case is a routine matter. But soon dark secrets start to emerge from the victim's past and Wesley realise...

  • Equity: The Boardroom

  • Parisian Plaything

  • Ski Sex Party

  • Tuscan Tryst

  • Walking by Night

    A Joe Plantagenet Murder Mystery - 5

    Taking a short cut home beneath the ruined abbey in the center 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 ...



  • London - Kinky Kidnap

  • The Russian Sauna

  • A High Mortality of Doves

    The Albert Lincoln Trilogy - 1

    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. ...

  • The House of Eyes

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 20

    When Darren Hatman reports his daughter missing, DI Wesley Peterson isn't too concerned. Leanne Hatman is an aspiring model, keen to abandon her native Devon for the bright lights of London. However, Darren's claim that a photographer has been stalki...

  • The Mermaid's Scream

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 21

    Why did Wynn Staniland, a legend in the literary world, suddenly become a recluse in the 1980s? Most assumed he stopped writing because of his wife's bizarre suicide; a death that mirrored a murder case from the nineteenth century. And now a prom...

  • The Mechanical Devil

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 22

  • The Boy Who Lived with the Dead

    The Albert Lincoln Trilogy - 2

    It is 1920 and Scotland Yard detective, DI Albert Lincoln, is still reeling from the disturbing events of the previous year. Trapped in a loveless marriage and tired of his life in London, he's pleased when he's called to a new case in the North West...

  • Dead Man's Lane

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 23

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  • The House of the Hanged Woman

    The Albert Lincoln Trilogy - 3

    'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The Times'A powerful story of loss, malice and deception' Ann Cleeves1921. When a Member of Parliament goes missing in a small Derbyshire village, Scotland Yard detective Albert Lincoln is sent up...



  • The Burial Circle

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 24

    A SKELETON DISCOVERED. A MURDER TO BE SOLVED . . . On a stormy night in December, a tree is blown down on an isolated Devon farm. When the fallen tree is dragged away, a rucksack is found caught amongst the roots - and next to it is a human skelet...

  • The Stone Chamber

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 25

    'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The Times__________________On a summer evening, Robert and Greta Gerdner are shot dead at their home in the Devon countryside.DI Wesley Peterson suspects the execution-style murders might be linke...

  • You Are Not Your Thoughts

  • Serpent's Point

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 26

    'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The Times__________________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...

  • Brick Lane Bookshop New Short Stories 2022

  • All Moms Sarah

    As seen on The TODAY Show!Moms are amazing! The care, support, and love they give make us stronger, smarter, kinder, and happier. Every mom is unique and special, so celebrate them with this beautiful picture book written by the married team of Sarah...

  • The Killing Place

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 27

    Million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis returns with the brand new book in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series.'A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' THE TIMESNovember. With the tourist season over in South Devon, Detective Inspecto...

  • Coffin Island

    A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel - 28

    The next gripping mystery featuring DI Wesley Peterson by the million-copy-bestselling author Kate Ellis.Despite many years living in South Devon, DI Wesley Peterson has never visited the tiny island of St Rumon's. That is until erosion from a storm ...

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Kate Ellis has published 47 books.

The next book by Kate Ellis, Coffin Island, will be published in August 2024.

The first book by Kate Ellis, The Merchant's House, was published in May 1999.

Yes. Kate Ellis has 4 series.
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