Serpent's Point: Book 26 in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series

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The woman had been house-sitting at Serpent's Point and Wesley is surprised to discover that she was conducting an investigation into unsolved missing person cases. As Wesley delves into the life of the dead woman, he learns that she has been house sitting at Serpents Point, a large house near where she was found. I was checking this blog and learned that I hadn't read one from 2011 so I'll be getting to that eventually but right now I have a shelf full of books from the library. The woman had been house-sitting at Serpent's Point and Wesley is surprised to discover that she was conducting an investigation into unsolved missing persons cases. The intermittent excerpts from the 1921 archaeological dig team didn't feel too relevant throughout the book and it didn't have too much impact on the ending which was disappointing.

I can’t count the number of books I’ve read and the plot is over in 50 pages, where the author is cramming the ending like a pack of sardines in. She worked in teaching, marketing and accountancy before first enjoying writing success as a winner of the North West Playwrights competition. The book unfolds naturally and everything feels cohesive rather than forced which is rare to find now! As in every book of this series, there's a parallel story involving Wesley's archaeologist friend Neil Watson, who's excavating a possible Roman site near the scene of Susan's murder. When a skeleton is uncovered, the pressure rises to find a killer, and Wesley and Neil realise that Serpent's Point holds more secrets than anyone could have imagined.A beguiling author who interweaves past and present' The Times__________________Serpent's Point in South Devon is the focus of local legends. Also, that she had been conducting an investigation into unsolved missing person cases, in various parts of the country. But as they investigate Susan Brown's life, they discover she was investigating the disappearance and murder of two other women. Maybe it's time to ditch references to Wesley's and Rachel's non affair and how Wesley's wife used to date Neil many moons ago. The number of potential suspects and the work Gerry, Wesley and the rest of the team have to put into whittle them down keeps you guessing to the end.

When a woman is found strangled on a coastal path in South Devon, the police suspect at first that she's the random victim of a stranger. Kate Ellis's writing draws me in and the problem with that is that her books only take a few days to read and I am then on pins until the next in the series of 'DI Wesley Peterson' and his colleagues, family and friends.

Kate Ellis has created a likeable and interesting set of characters that develop as the series continues. The plot is simple really and gradually builds up where over the last 100 pages of the book there’s a slow unravel of information. Such a gripping tale that, as well as Wesley and Gerry being in Devon, where their the first murder takes place, takes us to The Cotswolds and Yorkshire on the track of a what they now know is a serial killer. As he delves into the case, he starts to notice that there are other murders from around England that could be linked to why Susan had been killed. Quite often it can be clunky when there are multiple time lines, but keeping the timeline in the past quite simply narrated really worked well.