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The Merchant's House by Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series: DS Wesley Peterson Book #1
Publication Date: April 21, 2010
Book Description: DS Wesley Peterson, newly arrived in the West Country town of Tradmouth, has his hands full when a child goes missing and a young woman is brutally murdered on a lonely cliff path. Then his old friend, archaeologist Neil Watson, unearths the skeletons of a strangled woman and a new born baby in the cellar of an ancient merchant's house nearby. As the investigation continues, Wesley begins to suspect that these deaths, centuries apart, may be linked by age-old motives of jealousy, a sexual obsession and desperate longing. And the pressure is on if he is going to prevent a further tragedy.
Dates Read: February 9, 2019 - February 12, 2019
Participants & Ratings: (6) Andrew -4.5, Sergei-4.5, Carol-5, Lynda- 4, Eadie 5 ,- Brenda-4
Overall Average Rating: 4.50
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The Armada Boy by Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series: Wesley Petersen Book #2
Publication Date: July 13, 2000
Book Description: Norman Openheim is an American veteran of the D Day Landings on a sentimental journey with his old unit to their West Country base. His body is the last one archaeologist Neil Watson expects to find in the ruins of an old chantry chapel. Neil naturally turns to his old friend from student days, Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson, for help. Ironically, both men are looking at an invading force - Wes, the WWII Yanks, and Neil, a group of shipwrecked Spaniards reputed to have met a sticky end at the hands of outraged locals as they limped from the wreckage of the great Armada. Local memories are retentive, and Wes is soon caught up in old accusations, resentments, and romances from fifty years before. But the coolness of Openheim's wife Dorinda, and her reliance on a fellow veteran in the party, offer an all-too-familiar motive for murder. As if that is not enough, a belligerent group of homeless youths are also under suspicion: then another veteran's wife disappears. Wes's case grows more perplexing, while Neil uncovers a tragic story from the distant past. Over four hundred years apart, two strangers in a strange land have died violently - could the same motives of hatred, jealousy, and revenge be at work? Wes is running out of time to find out.
Dates Read: April 6, 2019 - April 9, 2019
Participants & Ratings: (5) Andrew- 4, Carol-3, Lynda-3.5, Eadie-4, Brenda-4, Jen-3.5
Overall Average Rating: 3.70
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An Unhallowed Grave by Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series: Wesley Peterson Book #3
Publication Date: May 18, 2001
Book Description: When the body of a middle-aged woman is found hanging from a yew tree in Stokeworthy Churchyard, the police suspect foul play. But the victim is an unlikely one. Pauline Brent was the local doctor's receptionist, respected and well liked. She seems to have no real enemies-and yet someone killed her. Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson, a black detective recently transferred to the quiet, West Country English village, is determined to discover the truth and, once again, it is history that provides him with a clue. For Wesley's archaeologist friend, Neil Watson, has excavated an ancient corpse at a nearby dig: a woman who had been buried at a crossroads, on unhallowed ground. It appears that the body is that of the same woman whom local legend has it was publicly executed in the churchyard centuries before. A chilling echo of the fifteenth-century lynching, Pauline Brent's death forces Wesley to consider the possibility that the killer also knows the tree's dark history. Has Pauline been "executed" rather than murdered-and if so, for what crime? To catch a dangerous killer, Wesley has to discover as much as he can about the victim. But Pauline Brent appears to have been a woman with few friends, no relatives, and a past she has tried carefully to hide.
Dates Read: June 29, 2019 - July 1, 2019
Participants & Ratings: (7) Andrew 4- Sergei 4.5 - Carol 4 - Lynda 4- Eadie 4 - Brenda 4- Tove-Reads-4
Overall Average Rating:4.07
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The Funeral Boat by Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series: Wesley Peterson series Book #4
Publication Date: May 1, 2012
Book Description: When a skeleton is discovered on a Devon smallholding, DS Wesley Peterson, a keen amateur archaeologist, is intrigued by the possibility that it is a Viking corpse, buried in keeping with ancient traditions. But he has a rather more urgent crime to solve- the disappearance of a Danish tourist.
Dates Read: September 20, 2019 - September 24, 2019
Participants & Ratings: (6) Andrew-4.5, Sergei-4.5, Carol-4.5, Lynda 4.5, Eadie, Brenda -3.5
Overall Average Rating: 4.25
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The Bone Garden - Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series: Wesley Peterson Book # 5
Publication Date: July 2, 2003
Book Description: An excavation at the lost gardens of Earlsacre Hall is called to a halt when a skeleton is discovered under a 300 year old stone plinth, a corpse that seems to have been buried alive. But DS Wesley Peterson has little time to indulge in his hobby of archaeology. He has a more recent murder case to solve. A man has been found stabbed to death in a caravan at a popular holiday park and the only clue to his identity is a newspaper cutting about the restoration of Earlsacre. Does local solicitor Brian Willerby have the answer? He seems eager to talk to Wesley but before he can reveal his secret he is found dead during a 'friendly' game of village cricket, apparently struck by a cricket ball several times with some force. If Wesley is looking for a demon bowler this appears to let out most of the village side. But what is it about Earlsacre Hall that leads people to murder?
Dates Read: November 9, 2019 - November 13, 2019
Participants & Ratings: (6) Andrew 4.5-, Sergei -4.5, Carol -4.5, Lynda 4-, Eadie 4-, Brenda 4-
Overall Average Rating: 4.25
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A Painted Doom - Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series: Wesley Peterson Book #6
Publication Date: December 1, 2002
Book Description: Teenager Lewis Hoxworthy discovers a disturbing painting in a medieval barn; a discovery which excites archaeologist Neil Watson who is excavating an ancient manor house nearby. But when former rock star Jonny Shellmer is found shot through the head in Lewis's father's field and Lewis himself goes missing after contacting a man on the internet, Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson and his boss, Gerry Heffernan face one of their most intriguing cases yet. It seems that the Devon village of Derenham is not only full of resident celebrities seeking the rural idyll, but full of secrets, ancient and modern. Lewis's distraught parents seem to have something to hide. Then the mysterious owner of a new age shop is silenced before she can reveal what she knows about Jonny Shellmer. Is Jonny's death linked to Lewis's disappearance? And does Jonny's best-known song, 'Angel' contain a clue? As Neil Watson uncovers the story of Derenham's medieval past, it becomes clear that the Derenham Doom - a painted portrayal of hell and judgement more than half a millennium old - holds the key to the mystery. And as events reach a terrifying climax, Wesley Peterson has to act swiftly if he is to save a young life.
Dates Read: January 2020 - January 2020
Participants & Ratings: (5) Andrew 4.5-, Sergei -4.25, Carol 4-, Lynda -4.5, Eadie 5 -, Brenda -
Overall Average Rating: 4.45 (no rating for 1 member)
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The Skeleton Room - Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series: D.I. Wesley Peterson Book #7
Publication Date: July 24, 2003
Book Description: When workmen converting former girls' boarding school, Chadleigh Hall, into a luxury hotel discover a skeleton in a sealed room, DI Wesley Peterson and his boss, Gerry Heffernan are called in to investigate. But within minutes they have a second suspicious death on their hands: a team of marine archaeologists working on a nearby shipwreck have dragged a woman's body from the sea. And it becomes clear that her death was no accident. The dead woman's husband may be linked with a brutal robbery of computer equipment but Wesley soon discovers that the victim had secrets of her own As he investigates Chadleigh Hall's past and the woman's violent death, both trails lead in surprising directions and matters are further complicated when a man wanted for a murder in London appears on the scene, a man who may know more about Wesley's cases than he admits.
Dates Read: September 25, 2020 - September 30, 2020
Participants & Ratings: (6)- Andrew 4.5- Sergei 4.5- Carol 3.5- Lynda 4 - Eadie 4- Brenda 3.5 -
Overall Average Rating: 4.00
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The Plague Maiden - Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series: Wesley Peterson Book #8
Publication Date: January 1, 2004 (Hardcover)
Book Description: A stir is caused in Tradmouth when a letter arrives at the police station claiming that the man convicted of murdering the Vicar of Belsham is innocent. DI Wesley Peterson already has his hands full with threats made to local supermarket chain, Huntings...the last thing he needs is an alleged miscarriage of justice to investigate. Meanwhile, Wesley's friend, archaeologist Neil Watson, uncovers a medieval plague pit at a site near Belsham church earmarked for Huntings' new superstore. As Wesley's investigations continue, he begins to suspect that the vicar's murder, the disappearance of a woman and the threats to the supermarket may be linked in some way.
Dates Read: February 9, 2023 - February 13 - 2023
Participants & Ratings: - (7) - Andrew 4 -Carol - 4 - John 4.25 - Eadie 4- Sergei 4 - Maura - 4 Brenda -3
Overall Average Rating: 3.89
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A Cursed Inheritance - Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series:DI Wesley Peterson Book #9
Publication Date: March 1, 2005 (Hardcover)
Book Description: The brutal massacre of the Harford family at Potwoolstan Hall in 1985 shocked the country and passed into local folklore. Now, twenty years later, a journalist researching the case has been murdered and the horror is reawakened. DI Wesley Peterson is drawn into the dark history of Potwoolstan Hall as he begins to investigate the murder. The sixteenth-century hall, which is now a New Age healing Center, is reputed to be cursed because of the crimes of its builder and it seems that this inheritance of evil lives on. As more people start to die in violent circumstances, DI Wesley Peterson is faced with his most disturbing case yet.
Dates Read: January 23, 2024- January 28, 2024
Participants & Ratings: (5) Andrew:4.0 Eadie:4.0 Sergei:4.0 Lynda: 3.0 Maura:3.0
Overall Average Rating: 3.60
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The Marriage Hearse: - Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series: Wesley Petterson, Book #10
Publication Date: May 7, 2019
Book Description:A young woman is found strangled hours before her wedding. DI Wesley Peterson discovers that Kirsten Harbourn was being pursued by an obsessed stalker and had dark secrets her fiancé knew nothing about. But Kirsten's wasn't the only wedding planned to take place that day in South Devon. A couple made their wedding vows at Morbary registry office and a few days later the groom is found dead in a seaside hotel. As Wesley examines the links between the cases, the skeleton of a young bride is discovered in a field once owned by the family of an Elizabethan playwright. Ralph Strong's play, The Fair Wife of Padua, is soon to be performed for the first time in four hundred years. Is the bloodthirsty drama a confession to the historic murder? And can it reveal anything about the recent killings Wesley must solve?
Dates Read: - October 20, 2024 - October 25, 2024
Participants & Ratings: (5) Andrew:5.0 Sergei:4.5 Eadie:5.0 Maura:4.5 Lynda:
Overall Average Rating:
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Book Discussion:
Series: DS Wesley Peterson Book #1
Publication Date: April 21, 2010
Book Description: DS Wesley Peterson, newly arrived in the West Country town of Tradmouth, has his hands full when a child goes missing and a young woman is brutally murdered on a lonely cliff path. Then his old friend, archaeologist Neil Watson, unearths the skeletons of a strangled woman and a new born baby in the cellar of an ancient merchant's house nearby. As the investigation continues, Wesley begins to suspect that these deaths, centuries apart, may be linked by age-old motives of jealousy, a sexual obsession and desperate longing. And the pressure is on if he is going to prevent a further tragedy.
Dates Read: February 9, 2019 - February 12, 2019
Participants & Ratings: (6) Andrew -4.5, Sergei-4.5, Carol-5, Lynda- 4, Eadie 5 ,- Brenda-4
Overall Average Rating: 4.50
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The Armada Boy by Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series: Wesley Petersen Book #2
Publication Date: July 13, 2000
Book Description: Norman Openheim is an American veteran of the D Day Landings on a sentimental journey with his old unit to their West Country base. His body is the last one archaeologist Neil Watson expects to find in the ruins of an old chantry chapel. Neil naturally turns to his old friend from student days, Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson, for help. Ironically, both men are looking at an invading force - Wes, the WWII Yanks, and Neil, a group of shipwrecked Spaniards reputed to have met a sticky end at the hands of outraged locals as they limped from the wreckage of the great Armada. Local memories are retentive, and Wes is soon caught up in old accusations, resentments, and romances from fifty years before. But the coolness of Openheim's wife Dorinda, and her reliance on a fellow veteran in the party, offer an all-too-familiar motive for murder. As if that is not enough, a belligerent group of homeless youths are also under suspicion: then another veteran's wife disappears. Wes's case grows more perplexing, while Neil uncovers a tragic story from the distant past. Over four hundred years apart, two strangers in a strange land have died violently - could the same motives of hatred, jealousy, and revenge be at work? Wes is running out of time to find out.
Dates Read: April 6, 2019 - April 9, 2019
Participants & Ratings: (5) Andrew- 4, Carol-3, Lynda-3.5, Eadie-4, Brenda-4, Jen-3.5
Overall Average Rating: 3.70
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An Unhallowed Grave by Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series: Wesley Peterson Book #3
Publication Date: May 18, 2001
Book Description: When the body of a middle-aged woman is found hanging from a yew tree in Stokeworthy Churchyard, the police suspect foul play. But the victim is an unlikely one. Pauline Brent was the local doctor's receptionist, respected and well liked. She seems to have no real enemies-and yet someone killed her. Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson, a black detective recently transferred to the quiet, West Country English village, is determined to discover the truth and, once again, it is history that provides him with a clue. For Wesley's archaeologist friend, Neil Watson, has excavated an ancient corpse at a nearby dig: a woman who had been buried at a crossroads, on unhallowed ground. It appears that the body is that of the same woman whom local legend has it was publicly executed in the churchyard centuries before. A chilling echo of the fifteenth-century lynching, Pauline Brent's death forces Wesley to consider the possibility that the killer also knows the tree's dark history. Has Pauline been "executed" rather than murdered-and if so, for what crime? To catch a dangerous killer, Wesley has to discover as much as he can about the victim. But Pauline Brent appears to have been a woman with few friends, no relatives, and a past she has tried carefully to hide.
Dates Read: June 29, 2019 - July 1, 2019
Participants & Ratings: (7) Andrew 4- Sergei 4.5 - Carol 4 - Lynda 4- Eadie 4 - Brenda 4- Tove-Reads-4
Overall Average Rating:4.07
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The Funeral Boat by Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series: Wesley Peterson series Book #4
Publication Date: May 1, 2012
Book Description: When a skeleton is discovered on a Devon smallholding, DS Wesley Peterson, a keen amateur archaeologist, is intrigued by the possibility that it is a Viking corpse, buried in keeping with ancient traditions. But he has a rather more urgent crime to solve- the disappearance of a Danish tourist.
Dates Read: September 20, 2019 - September 24, 2019
Participants & Ratings: (6) Andrew-4.5, Sergei-4.5, Carol-4.5, Lynda 4.5, Eadie, Brenda -3.5
Overall Average Rating: 4.25
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The Bone Garden - Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series: Wesley Peterson Book # 5
Publication Date: July 2, 2003
Book Description: An excavation at the lost gardens of Earlsacre Hall is called to a halt when a skeleton is discovered under a 300 year old stone plinth, a corpse that seems to have been buried alive. But DS Wesley Peterson has little time to indulge in his hobby of archaeology. He has a more recent murder case to solve. A man has been found stabbed to death in a caravan at a popular holiday park and the only clue to his identity is a newspaper cutting about the restoration of Earlsacre. Does local solicitor Brian Willerby have the answer? He seems eager to talk to Wesley but before he can reveal his secret he is found dead during a 'friendly' game of village cricket, apparently struck by a cricket ball several times with some force. If Wesley is looking for a demon bowler this appears to let out most of the village side. But what is it about Earlsacre Hall that leads people to murder?
Dates Read: November 9, 2019 - November 13, 2019
Participants & Ratings: (6) Andrew 4.5-, Sergei -4.5, Carol -4.5, Lynda 4-, Eadie 4-, Brenda 4-
Overall Average Rating: 4.25
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A Painted Doom - Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series: Wesley Peterson Book #6
Publication Date: December 1, 2002
Book Description: Teenager Lewis Hoxworthy discovers a disturbing painting in a medieval barn; a discovery which excites archaeologist Neil Watson who is excavating an ancient manor house nearby. But when former rock star Jonny Shellmer is found shot through the head in Lewis's father's field and Lewis himself goes missing after contacting a man on the internet, Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson and his boss, Gerry Heffernan face one of their most intriguing cases yet. It seems that the Devon village of Derenham is not only full of resident celebrities seeking the rural idyll, but full of secrets, ancient and modern. Lewis's distraught parents seem to have something to hide. Then the mysterious owner of a new age shop is silenced before she can reveal what she knows about Jonny Shellmer. Is Jonny's death linked to Lewis's disappearance? And does Jonny's best-known song, 'Angel' contain a clue? As Neil Watson uncovers the story of Derenham's medieval past, it becomes clear that the Derenham Doom - a painted portrayal of hell and judgement more than half a millennium old - holds the key to the mystery. And as events reach a terrifying climax, Wesley Peterson has to act swiftly if he is to save a young life.
Dates Read: January 2020 - January 2020
Participants & Ratings: (5) Andrew 4.5-, Sergei -4.25, Carol 4-, Lynda -4.5, Eadie 5 -, Brenda -
Overall Average Rating: 4.45 (no rating for 1 member)
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The Skeleton Room - Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series: D.I. Wesley Peterson Book #7
Publication Date: July 24, 2003
Book Description: When workmen converting former girls' boarding school, Chadleigh Hall, into a luxury hotel discover a skeleton in a sealed room, DI Wesley Peterson and his boss, Gerry Heffernan are called in to investigate. But within minutes they have a second suspicious death on their hands: a team of marine archaeologists working on a nearby shipwreck have dragged a woman's body from the sea. And it becomes clear that her death was no accident. The dead woman's husband may be linked with a brutal robbery of computer equipment but Wesley soon discovers that the victim had secrets of her own As he investigates Chadleigh Hall's past and the woman's violent death, both trails lead in surprising directions and matters are further complicated when a man wanted for a murder in London appears on the scene, a man who may know more about Wesley's cases than he admits.
Dates Read: September 25, 2020 - September 30, 2020
Participants & Ratings: (6)- Andrew 4.5- Sergei 4.5- Carol 3.5- Lynda 4 - Eadie 4- Brenda 3.5 -
Overall Average Rating: 4.00
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The Plague Maiden - Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series: Wesley Peterson Book #8
Publication Date: January 1, 2004 (Hardcover)
Book Description: A stir is caused in Tradmouth when a letter arrives at the police station claiming that the man convicted of murdering the Vicar of Belsham is innocent. DI Wesley Peterson already has his hands full with threats made to local supermarket chain, Huntings...the last thing he needs is an alleged miscarriage of justice to investigate. Meanwhile, Wesley's friend, archaeologist Neil Watson, uncovers a medieval plague pit at a site near Belsham church earmarked for Huntings' new superstore. As Wesley's investigations continue, he begins to suspect that the vicar's murder, the disappearance of a woman and the threats to the supermarket may be linked in some way.
Dates Read: February 9, 2023 - February 13 - 2023
Participants & Ratings: - (7) - Andrew 4 -Carol - 4 - John 4.25 - Eadie 4- Sergei 4 - Maura - 4 Brenda -3
Overall Average Rating: 3.89
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A Cursed Inheritance - Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series:DI Wesley Peterson Book #9
Publication Date: March 1, 2005 (Hardcover)
Book Description: The brutal massacre of the Harford family at Potwoolstan Hall in 1985 shocked the country and passed into local folklore. Now, twenty years later, a journalist researching the case has been murdered and the horror is reawakened. DI Wesley Peterson is drawn into the dark history of Potwoolstan Hall as he begins to investigate the murder. The sixteenth-century hall, which is now a New Age healing Center, is reputed to be cursed because of the crimes of its builder and it seems that this inheritance of evil lives on. As more people start to die in violent circumstances, DI Wesley Peterson is faced with his most disturbing case yet.
Dates Read: January 23, 2024- January 28, 2024
Participants & Ratings: (5) Andrew:4.0 Eadie:4.0 Sergei:4.0 Lynda: 3.0 Maura:3.0
Overall Average Rating: 3.60
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The Marriage Hearse: - Kate Ellis
Book Discussion:
Series: Wesley Petterson, Book #10
Publication Date: May 7, 2019
Book Description:A young woman is found strangled hours before her wedding. DI Wesley Peterson discovers that Kirsten Harbourn was being pursued by an obsessed stalker and had dark secrets her fiancé knew nothing about. But Kirsten's wasn't the only wedding planned to take place that day in South Devon. A couple made their wedding vows at Morbary registry office and a few days later the groom is found dead in a seaside hotel. As Wesley examines the links between the cases, the skeleton of a young bride is discovered in a field once owned by the family of an Elizabethan playwright. Ralph Strong's play, The Fair Wife of Padua, is soon to be performed for the first time in four hundred years. Is the bloodthirsty drama a confession to the historic murder? And can it reveal anything about the recent killings Wesley must solve?
Dates Read: - October 20, 2024 - October 25, 2024
Participants & Ratings: (5) Andrew:5.0 Sergei:4.5 Eadie:5.0 Maura:4.5 Lynda:
Overall Average Rating:
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3EadieB
Thanks >2 Carol420:
4Maura49
>2 Carol420: With thanks as always for the update Carol
5Carol420
>3 EadieB: >4 Maura49: You are both very welcome.... and thank you also >3 EadieB: >3 EadieB: I hope you and John had a great anniversary.
6EadieB
>5 Carol420: yes we did! Went to dinner in my home town at a restaurant called Maize where they make food from the local community. It was great! Here are some pictures of this great restaurant that people come from New York to attend: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g53430-d1816248-Reviews-Maize_Rest...
7Andrew-theQM
Thanks Carol 😊
8Carol420
>7 Andrew-theQM: You are very welcome.
9Sergeirocks
>2 Carol420: Thanks for doing this, Carol, ☺️.
