Inhalt: Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson transfers from London to Tradmouth in Devon so his wife can be closer to relatives. His first day on the Tradmouth force brings a murder, a missing child, and a medieval skeleton unearthed by Peterson's archaeologist friend. As he investigates, Peterson learns that the skeleton offers a clue to both the murder and the missing child. Ellis' first novel is a strong police procedural featuring some distinctly nonstereotypical characters. Peterson, for example, is a black detective in rural England who is in an interracial marriage and enjoys archaeology as a hobby. Schlagworte:Krimi, englisch Systematik: Roman Umfang: 264 S. Standort: Ell (e) ISBN: 978-0-7499-3699-0
Inhalt: When the body of Pauline Brent, a doctor's receptionist, turns up hanging from a yew tree in Stokeworthy churchyard, Wes and his colleagues of the Tradmouth (Devon) police soon determine that she was initially strangled. But who would want to murder Pauline, who by all reports had led a blameless life? While Wes and his team interview people who knew the victim, who mysteriously doesn't have much of a past, an archeological dig unearths the 500-year-old skeleton of a young woman whose broken neck suggests that she was hanged. As the police draw closer to identifying Pauline's killer, 15th-century legal documents just as suspensefully reveal an ancient miscarriage of justice. Schlagworte:Krimi, englisch Systematik: Roman Umfang: 232 S. Standort: Ell (e) ISBN: 978-0-7499-3700-3
Inhalt: Past and present come together in Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson's latest case. In the course of restoring the gardens at historic Earlsacre Hall, three skeletons are uncovered. The bones appear to be centuries old, but they hold an interest for Peterson, whose degree is in archaeology. But despite the attraction of the skeletons, Peterson has more pressing concerns. A decomposing body with multiple stab wounds is found at a local campsite, and shortly afterward, the body of a local lawyer is discovered, his head bashed in by a cricket bat. Peterson's intuition tells him the two murders are connected, and he also suspects a link with Earlsacre, but he has no evidence to back up his hunches. Then his colleague, Detective Rachel Tracey, is kidnapped, drugged, and left for dead, and the intrepid Peterson has a more pressing reason to connect all the dots. Schlagworte:Krimi, englisch Systematik: Roman Umfang: 232 S. Standort: Ell (e) ISBN: 978-0-7499-3705-8
Inhalt: After a boy discovers a skeleton on his mother's smallholding, Hefferman suspects it's that of the boy's disreputable father, who vanished three years earlier. Peterson, whose degree is in archeology, thinks it may be far older and brings in a former university colleague to see whether the remains might be those of a Viking. A series of break-ins at isolated farmhouses and the disappearance of a beautiful Danish tourist, Ingeborg Larsen, complicate matters. Schlagworte:Krimi, englisch Systematik: Roman Umfang: 236 S. Standort: Ell (e) ISBN: 978-0-7499-3701-0
Inhalt: 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. Schlagworte:Krimi, englisch Systematik: Roman Umfang: 232 S. Standort: Ell (e) ISBN: 978-0-7499-3756-0
Inhalt: 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 Schlagworte:Krimi, englisch Systematik: Roman Umfang: 374 S. Standort: Ell (e) ISBN: 978-0-7499-3376-0
Inhalt: Archaeologist Neil Watson did not to expect to find the body of American veteran Norman Oppenheim in the ruins of the old chantry chapel...He turns to his old student friend, Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson, for help. Ironically, both men are looking at an invading force - Wes the WWII Yanks and Neil a group of Spaniards killed by outraged locals as they limped from the wreckage of the Armada. 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 ... Schlagworte:Krimi, englisch Systematik: Roman Umfang: 218 S. Standort: Ell (e) ISBN: 978-0-7499-3698-3
Inhalt: Ein wunderbar stimmungsvoller Krimi in bester britischer Erzähltradition! Mitternacht auf dem Friedhof der englischen Kleinstadt Stokeworthy: Zwei junge Mädchen versuchen sich an einem magischen Liebesritual. Doch was sie schließlich erblicken, ist nicht der Mann ihrer Träume, sondern eine Frau, die mit einem Strick um den Hals an der Friedhofseibe hängt. Und schnell ist klar: Pauline Brent, die Sprechstundenhilfe eines örtlichen Arztes, ist ermordet worden. Sergeant Wesley Peterson aus dem Polizeihauptquartier in Tradmouth übernimmt die Ermittlungen - und stößt bald in ein undurchdringliches Gewirr aus Lügen und Intrigen, das bis in die feine Gesellschaft von Stokeworthy reicht ... Schlagworte:Krimi Systematik: Roman Umfang: 368 S. Standort: Ell (k) ISBN: 978-3-442-36249-3
Inhalt: Sergeant Wesley Peterson wird in die kleine englische Stadt Earlsacre gerufen, um den Messermord an einem unbekannten Fremden aufzuklären. Allein der örtliche Rechtsanwalt Brian Willerby scheint etwas zu dem Fall aussagen zu können. Doch dann wird Willerby selbst getötet - und Peterson beginnt zu ahnen, dass das Motiv für die Morde in der dunklen Vergangenheit von Earlsacre begraben liegt ... Schlagworte:Krimi Systematik: Roman Umfang: 368 S. Standort: Ell (k) ISBN: 978-3-442-36248-6
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