Kate Ellis (author)


Kate Ellis is a British author of crime fiction, 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.
Ellis has also the written five novels set in Yorkshire as part of the Joe Plantagenet series 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
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Novels

;Featuring Wesley PetersonThe Merchant's House, 1998The Armada Boy, 1999An Unhallowed Grave, 1999The Funeral Boat, 2000The Bone Garden, 2001A Painted Doom, 2002The Skeleton Room, 2003The Plague Maiden, 2004A Cursed Inheritance, 2005The Marriage Hearse, 2006The Shining Skull, 2007The Blood Pit, 2008A Perfect Death, 2009The Flesh Tailor, 2010The Jackal Man, 2011The Cadaver Game, 2012The Shadow Collector, 2013The Shroud Maker, 2014The Death Season, 2015The House of Eyes, 2016The Mermaid's Scream, 2017
  • The Mechanical Devil, 2018
  • Dead Man's Lane, 2019
  • The Burial Circle, 2020
  • The Stone Chamber, 2021
  • Serpent’s Point, 2023
;Featuring Joe PlantagenetSeeking the Dead, 2008Playing with Bones, 2009Kissing the Demons, 2011Watching the Ghosts, 2012Walking by the Night, 2015
;OthersThe Devil's Priest, 2006 A High Mortality of Doves, 2016