The Marriage Hearse (The Wesley Peterson Murder Mysteries) - Softcover

Ellis, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749937025 ISBN 13: 9780749937027

Publisher: Piatkus Books, 2010

Synopsis

When Kirsten Harbourn is found strangled and naked on her wedding day, DI Wesley Peterson makes some alarming discoveries. Kirsten was being pursued by an obsessed stalker and she had dark secrets her doting fianc, Peter, knew nothing about. But Kirsten's wasn't the only wedding planned to take place that July day in South Devon. At Morbay register office a terrified young girl makes her wedding vows. And a few days later her bridegroom is found dead in a seedy seaside hotel. As Wesley investigates he suspects that his death and his bride's subsequent disappearance might be linked to Kirsten's murder. Meanwhile the skeleton of a young female is found buried in a farmer's field - a field that once belonged to the family of Ralph Strong, an Elizabethan playwright whose play, 'The Fair Wife of Padua' is to be performed for the first time in four hundred years. Is this bloodthirsty play a confession to a murder committed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1? Or does it tell another story, one that might cast light on recent mysteries?

About this title

About the Author:

Kate Ellis was born and brought up in Liverpool and studied drama in Manchester. She is the award-winning author of the DI Wesley Peterson detective novels, as well as the Albert Lincoln trilogy and the Joe Plantagenet mysteries.

In 2019 Kate won the CWA Dagger in the Library Award for her crime writing. It was the second time she had been shortlisted for the award, and she has also twice been shortlisted for CWA Short Story Dagger.

Visit her online at: www.kateellis.co.uk

Review:

A beguiling author who interweaves past and present―The Times

Traditional detective fiction with a historical twist - fans will love it―Scotland on Sunday

Star author. Unputdownable―Bookseller

Skilfully weaves crimes of past and present into a seamless narrative―Gerald Kaufman, The Scotsman

A gripping read―Best Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Piatkus Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0749937025
• ISBN 13: 9780749937027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304