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Dead Man's Lane: Book 23 in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series

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Ellis’ mysteries always have a link to the past and her Author’s Note gives her readers details of the real life historical influences for this tale. Strangefields Farm in Devon is being transformed into a holiday village, but its sinister past can't help but come barrelling into the present when a skull is found on the site.

The road follows its current course from the A6178 Sheffield Road towards what is today a steel refinery.Submission should reflect The Clearing/Little Toller’s concern with the natural environment, but within this broad subject-matter we encourage a diversity of interpretation and approach. A series of gruesome murders in the town adds to the burden already felt by Wesley's boss, the Chief Inspector. The cases are complex and fascinating with a superb sense of time and place which added to the atmosphere. And when a local florist is found murdered in an echo of Temples' crimes, DI Wesley Peterson fears that a copy-cat killer is at large. I particularly enjoyed the historical parts, explaining the origins of how that road got its name, and the gruesome deaths (and burials!

If you're in the mood for a long-running, high quality mystery series in which the cast of characters become friends and family, start at the beginning with The Merchant's House. Twenty years ago, an artist by the name of Jackson Temples murdered four beautiful young girls before he was caught and sent to prison - protesting his innocence all the way.

The usual mixture of an old historic case, a modern series of crimes and the discovery of a diary which explains the historic case. K. /Piatkus for an eARC via NetGalley of Kate Ellis’ ‘Dead Man’s Lane’ in exchange for an honest review. Anyone can read messages, but only registered users can post messages, reply to messages or create new topics.

Ellis' characters seem slightly flat and interchangeable, but that might be because this is the 23rd book in the series and it may be that Ellis feels there's no reason to keep reintroducing them! This story follows those guidelines, but we begin to see why Wesley is still a DI after so many investigations. There is just one book from this series I haven't yet read so I will soon make up for that before the newest book is released here in US later this summer. A real page-turner, this is the first book by Kate Ellis that I've read, and I look forward to reading more. However, there is a secondary thread which revolves around a body being discovered at Temples former home, known as Strangefields.Police suspect it belongs to one of Temples' victims, and when a local florist is found murdered in an echo of Temples' crimes, DI Wesley Peterson fears a copycat killer could be at large. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). I do admit that I had to smile when I learned that developers were turning the former home of a serial killer with an address on Dead Man's Lane into luxury holiday homes. So there is the old case against which the new occurs, with the venue of Strangefields, where Temples had killed multiple girls, and the method of killing, as well as numerous individuals who had a connection to him, including his half sister.

This is Dead Man's Lane, which was used to transport the dead from Mapperton to the bigger village of Netherbury for burial. The Simon Jardine series is based on his memories of the early 70s - the time of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll - when reporters relied on word of mouth and there was no internet, no mobile phones, not even a fax machine.With another brutal murder in a nearby village occurring, it seems almost blatant that this is the case.

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