Welcome to the official website of the author Kate Ellis

Welcome to the official website of Kate Ellis

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

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  • About Kate
  • Books
    • The Wesley Peterson Series
      • 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
      • The Jackal Man
      • The Cadaver Game
      • The Shadow Collector
      • The Shroud Maker
      • The Death Season
      • The House of Eyes
      • The Mermaid's Scream
      • The Mechanical Devil
      • Dead Man's Lane
      • The Burial Circle
      • The Stone Chamber
      • Serpent's Point
      • The Killing Place
      • Coffin Island
      • Deadly Remains
    • The Joe Plantagenet Series
      • Seeking the Dead
      • Playing With Bones
      • Kissing The Demons
      • Watching The Ghosts
      • Walking By Night
      • Killing in the Shadows
    • The Albert Lincoln Trilogy
      • A High Mortality of Doves
      • The Boy Who Lived with the Dead
      • The House of the Hanged Woman
    • Lady Katheryn Bulkeley
      • The Devil's Priest
    • Short Stories
      • Dark and Merciless Things - A Collection of 10 Short Stories
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  • Events
  • Media Interviews
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Forthcoming Events

On Sunday 8 February 2026 at 10.45am, Kate will be speaking at the Cheshire Crime Writers Festival

Kate will be attending and speaking at Shetland Noir 11 - 14 June 2026

 

 

Past Events

 At Bury Library with Fiona and Tony the Book

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At Bolton Library with Melanie and Tony the Book

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At Disley Library with staff Pam, Sally & Eileen

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At the launch of "A High Mortality of Doves", Simply Books, Bramhall

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With fellow Murder Squad member, Margaret Murphy, at Tickhill Library - April 2014

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Dartmouth Library Murder Mystery Afternoon 2013

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Blackpool Wordpool

Waterstones Southport - 1 Decemeber 2012

Kate with fellow Murder Squad members: Ann Cleeves, Margaret Murphy, Cath Staincliffe & Martin Edwards

Formby Books - 11 August 2012

Photo ©Steve Ellis

Formby Books - 15 March 2012

Kate & Martin Edwards with singer, Vicky & magician, John at an evening of "Crime & Entertainment"

Wigston Library - 18th November 2009

Kate with Dorothy & John from Leicestershire Libraries

Ellis Harris-Boulter (pictured) and his father, David, interviewed Kate for Sunflower FM

Dartmouth Library - 5th September 2006

Kate was delighted to be invited to Dartmouth's beautiful new library

Kate with librarians Maria & Liz

Waterstones Manchester - 22nd January 2003

Kate at Waterstones Manchester
Ron Ellis, Kate Ellis, Mandasue Heller, Martin Edwards and John Connelly

Marple Library - 19th June 2003

Kate at Marple Library



Ron Ellis (no relation!), Kate Ellis, and Martin Edwards

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