Kate Ellis is a British author of crime fiction,"The Shroud Maker by Kate Ellis". The Book Bag. best known for a series of detective novels, which blends history with mystery, featuring policeman Wesley Peterson.
Ellis' first novel, Merchant's House, published in 1998, received positive reviews and was chosen as one of the ten best summer reads by Woman's Weekly. She has since written 25 more novels in this series, many to critical acclaim."THE BONE GARDEN". RT Reviews."The Shadow Collector by Kate Ellis" . Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center, October 1, 2013
Ellis has also the written five novels set in Yorkshire as part of the Joe Plantagenet seriesSEEKING THE DEAD, by Kate Ellis. Reviewing the Evidence. and an historical crime novel, The Devil's Priest, which is set in 16th century Liverpool. More recently, A High Mortality of Doves, The Boy Who Lived With The Dead and The House of the Hanged Woman comprised a trilogy set in the aftermath of the First World War, featuring DI Albert Lincoln.
She was elected a member of The Detection Club in 2014 and is a member of the Crime Writers Association.
Ellis was the winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award 2019
Novels Featuring Wesley Peterson The Merchant's House, 1998Fiction Book Review: The Merchant's House by Kate Ellis, Author Thomas Dunne Books $22.95 (256p) . Publishers Weekly The Armada Boy, 1999 An Unhallowed Grave, 1999 The Funeral Boat, 2000 The Bone Garden, 2001" Reviews: Ellis, Kate - 'The Bone Garden'" Eurocrime A Painted Doom, 2002 The Skeleton Room, 2003 The Plague Maiden, 2004 A Cursed Inheritance, 2005 The Marriage Hearse, 2006 The Shining Skull, 2007 The Blood Pit, 2008"The Blood Pit by Kate Ellis" . Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center. January 2009 A Perfect Death, 2009 The Flesh Tailor, 2010 The Jackal Man, 2011"The Jackal Man by Kate Ellis – review" by Joanna Hines The Guardian, 12 August 2011 The Cadaver Game, 2012"Book review: The Cadaver Game by Kate Ellis" Wigan Today by Pam Norfolk The Shadow Collector, 2013 The Shroud Maker, 2014 The Death Season, 2015 The House of Eyes, 2016 The Mermaid's Scream, 2017 The Mechanical Devil, 2018 Dead Man's Lane, 2019 The Burial Circle, 2020 The Stone Chamber, 2021 Serpent’s Point, 2022 The Killing Place, 2023 Coffin Island, 2024 Deadly Remains, 2025
Featuring Joe Plantagenet Seeking the Dead, 2008 Playing with Bones, 2009 Kissing the Demons, 2011 Watching the Ghosts, 2012 Walking by Night, 2015 Killing in the Shadows, 2026
Others The Devil's Priest, 2006 (historical novel) A High Mortality of Doves (the first of the Albert Lincoln trilogy), 2016 The Boy Who Lived With The Dead (the second of the Albert Lincoln trilogy), 2018 The House of the Hanged Woman (the third of the Albert Lincoln trilogy), 2020
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