Kate Ellis

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QUICK NEWS: Kate's third Joe Plantagenet novel Kissing the Demons is now available in Paperback and on Kindle

 

QUICK NEWS: Kate's historical crime novel The Devil's Priest is available to download from the Amazon Kindle Store for £1.53 ($2.99 US)

 

Kate Ellis is the author of two exciting series of crime novels, an historical novel and many short stories.

Her books in the Wesley Peterson series, containing an intriguing blend of mystery and history, include:

The Merchant's House, The Armada Boy, An Unhallowed Grave, The Funeral Boat, The Bone Garden, A Painted Doom, The Skeleton Room, The Plague Maiden, A Cursed Inheritance, The Marriage Hearse, The Shining Skull, The Blood Pit, A Perfect Death, The Flesh Tailor and The Jackal Man.

The Cadaver Game will be available in February 2012 and Kate is now working on the seventeenth book in the series.

Also available are three books in her spooky and mysterious series set in the ancient city of Eborby in North Yorshire and featuring DI Joe Plantagenet. SEEKING THE DEAD, PLAYING WITH BONES and KISSING THE DEMONS are available in paperback. Kate is now working on the fourth book in the series WATCHING THE GHOSTS.

Kate's historical crime novel THE DEVIL'S PRIEST is set in 16th century Liverpool.

 

Wesley and Joe available in the Kindle Store - Click Here

 

 

 

 

NEWS

Kate is delighted to anounce the paperback publication of her 15th Wesley Peterson mystery, THE JACKAL MAN. Her research for this book took her down some unexpected routes - including an alarming encounter pictured below. For more information about THE JACKAL MAN, please click on the jacket image to your right.

 

 

 

 

 

ON TV & RADIO

You can watch Kate's TV interview about "The Shining Skull" with Rachel Harvey-Jones on Legal TV by clicking on "Media Interviews" on the left.

You can listen to Kate's interview about "The Shining Skull" with Linda McDermott on BBC Radio Merseyside by clicking on "Media Interviews" on the left.

Kate's interview with Sunflower FM, Leicester, has been added to "Media Interviews"

 

KATE'S DIARY updated 25 Jan 2012

EVENTS updated 10 Nov 2011

SHORT STORIES updated 5 June 2011

 




Last updated: January 25, 2012

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When a teenage girl is strangled and left for dead on a lonely country lane by an attacker she describes as having the head of a dog, the police are baffled. But when the body of another young woman 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 mumification.

Meanwhile, archaeologist Neil Watson has been called to Varley Castle to catalogue the collection of Edwardian amateur Egyptologist Sir Frederick Varley. As his research progresses, Neil discovers that Wesley's strange murder case bears sinister similarities to four murders that took place near Varley Castle in 1903 - murders said to have been committed by Sir Frederick's son.

As the Jackal Man's identity remains a frustrating enigma, it seems that the killer has yet another victim in mind. A victim close to Wesley Peterson himself...

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Thirteen Torland Place is a house with a disturbing past. Not only was it the scene of five terrible murders back in the nineteenth century, but the place is also linked to the disappearance of two teenage girls twelve years ago. When a student living there is found murdered, DI Joe Plantagenet wonders whether her death has anything to do with the house's grim history. Then other, similar deaths come to light and he fears that a ruthless serial killer is at work in the ancient Yorkshire city of Eborby, a killer who deprives each victim of one of their five senses. Could the deaths be connected to Obediah Shrowton, an executed murderer whose presence still seems to linger in the house? Or is there a yet more sinister and dangerous explanation?

 

 

 

 

 

©2011 Kate Ellis