Kate Ellis (author)

Kate Ellis is a British author of crime fiction,^[1] 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,^[2] 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.^[3][4]

Ellis has also the written five novels set in Yorkshire as part of the Joe Plantagenet series^[5] and an historical crime novel, The Devil's Priest, which is set in 16th century Liverpool.^[6] 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.^[7]

Ellis was the winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award 2019

Novels

Featuring Wesley Peterson

• The Merchant's House, 1998^[8]
• The Armada Boy, 1999
• An Unhallowed Grave, 1999
• The Funeral Boat, 2000
• The Bone Garden, 2001^[9]
• 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^[10]
• A Perfect Death, 2009^[11]
• The Flesh Tailor, 2010
• The Jackal Man, 2011^[12]
• The Cadaver Game, 2012^[13]
• 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, 2023

Featuring Joe Plantagenet

• Seeking the Dead, 2008^[5]
• Playing with Bones, 2009
• Kissing the Demons, 2011
• Watching the Ghosts, 2012
• Walking by the Night, 2015^[14]

Others

• The Devil's Priest, 2006 (historical novel)^[6]
• 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

References

1. "The Shroud Maker by Kate Ellis". The Book Bag.
2. "Fanstastic Fiction - Kate Ellis". Fantastic Fiction - Kate Ellis.
3. "THE BONE GARDEN". RT Reviews.
4. "The Shadow Collector by Kate Ellis". Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center, October 1, 2013
5. SEEKING THE DEAD, by Kate Ellis. Reviewing the Evidence.
6. "The Devil's Priest". The Devil's Priest on Kindle.
7. "CWA - shortlisted authors". Crime Writers' Association. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
8. Fiction Book Review: The Merchant's House by Kate Ellis, Author Thomas Dunne Books $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-20562-1. Publishers Weekly
9. " Reviews: Ellis, Kate - 'The Bone Garden'" Eurocrime
10. "The Blood Pit by Kate Ellis" 2013-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center. January 2009
11. bernadetteinoz (19 January 2011). "Review: A Perfect Death by Kate Ellis".
12. "The Jackal Man by Kate Ellis – review" by Joanna Hines The Guardian, 12 August 2011
13. "Book review: The Cadaver Game by Kate Ellis" Wigan Today by Pam Norfolk
14. "Kate Ellis books in order". Book Series in Order. Retrieved 20 May 2015.

• "Kate Ellis". Biography in Context. Gale. The Writers Directory. Detroit: St. James Press, 2013. June 7, 2013. GALE K1649574800. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
• ""Kate Ellis." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit". Biography in Context. Gale, Cengage Learning. GALE H1000147618. Retrieved December 31, 2013.

External links

• Official website