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      The Merchant's House

      by Kate Ellis
      Published
      May 1999
      Main Genre
      Police Procedural Police Procedural
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      256
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      A Wesley Peterson Crime Novel Book 1

      About This Book

      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 of a strangled woman and a newborn baby in the cellar of an ancient merchant's house nearby.

      As the investigation continues, Wesley begins to suspect that these deaths, centuries apart, may be linked by age-old motives of jealousy, sexual obsession and desperate longing. And the pressure is on if he is to prevent a further tragedy…

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      Suspense

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      Law Enforcement Police Procedural

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      May 2009 Piatkus Books (UK) ISBN13 9780749936990 ISBN10 0749936991
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      Apr 2010 Piatkus Books (UK) ISBN13 9780749952754 ISBN10 074995275X
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      First Edition May 1999 Thomas Dunne ISBN13 9780312205621 ISBN10 0312205627
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      Nov 2000 Soundings Audio Books ISBN13 9781860428791 ISBN10 1860428797
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      Sep 1999 Magna Large Print ISBN13 9780750514385 ISBN10 0750514388
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