The Merchant's House — Kate Ellis

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…