The Merchant's House: The First Wesley Peterson Murder Mystery

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Kate Ellis's wonderfully addictive series of West Country-set crime novels feature Wesley Peterson, one of Devon's first black detectives A black policeman from the Met might expect to meet some resistance, when he's transferred to a West Country seaside town—but, for DS Wesley Peterson, it's like coming home. One of the first people he bumps into is an old friend—Neil is heading an archaeological dig at a Tudor merchant's house, and Wesley has to tear himself away to become involved in a major search for a ...

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Kate Ellis's wonderfully addictive series of West Country-set crime novels feature Wesley Peterson, one of Devon's first black detectives A black policeman from the Met might expect to meet some resistance, when he's transferred to a West Country seaside town—but, for DS Wesley Peterson, it's like coming home. One of the first people he bumps into is an old friend—Neil is heading an archaeological dig at a Tudor merchant's house, and Wesley has to tear himself away to become involved in a major search for a missing child. The tension is mounting when a body is found—but to Wesley's relief it is turned up at Neil’s dig and is more than 400 years old. It seems to be a tragic murder nonetheless, for the bones are those of a strangled young woman and a newborn baby. When another, more recent body is found, the circumstances surrounding the child's disappearance become more complex, and Wesley is increasingly convinced that the age-old motives of jealousy, sexual obsession, and desperate longing for a child are behind the crimes—ancient and modern—that he must solve soon if further tragedy is to be averted.

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"A lively, unfancy prose style, an absorbing story, and believable characters make for a praiseworthy debut."  —Kirkus Reviews

"An exciting blend of historical and present-day police procedural . . . Peterson's skill and intuition make this is an involving, adventurous, nicely detailed work for all collections."  —Library Journal

"A strong police procedural featuring some distinctly nonstereotypical characters . . . will appeal to fans of Triss Stein's Digging Up Death or Beverly Connor's Lindsay Chamberlain series."  —Booklist

"Good straightforward story-telling with lots of interesting characters, pleasant humor, and a nicely done setting."  —Birmingham Post

"Fascinating first novel . . . mixes a 17th-century mystery with a present day one to good effect."  —Bookseller

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780749952754
  • Publisher: Piatkus Books
  • Publication date: 7/9/2010
  • Series: The Wesley Peterson Murder Mysteries
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 603,206
  • Product dimensions: 4.30 (w) x 6.90 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Kate Ellis is the author of the Wesley Peterson Series and has twice been nominated for the Crime Writers’ Association Short Story Dagger.

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