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A Perfect Death (Wesley Peterson #13)
by
Kate Ellis
A 13th-century legend could provide DI Peterson clues to a local murder in tale number 14 in the seriesWhen a woman is burned to death in Grandal Field in Devon, it seems like a case of mistaken identity. Until DI Wesley Peterson learns of a legend involving a French woman who burned to death there in the 13th century. When he discovers that records of a previous excavatio...more
Paperback, 432 pages
Published
December 1st 2010
by Piatkus Books
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First Line: "This is the place."
While on vacation in the south of France at Carcassonne, Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson and his wife Pam meet someone Wes went to university with but hasn't seen since those days. The man, acting cloak and dagger, says that he's worried about a woman in the Tradmouth area, but when he asks for a private meeting with Wes, he doesn't show up. Wes, marking it down to the man being as unreliable now as he was in university, tries to put it out of his mind. For so...more
While on vacation in the south of France at Carcassonne, Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson and his wife Pam meet someone Wes went to university with but hasn't seen since those days. The man, acting cloak and dagger, says that he's worried about a woman in the Tradmouth area, but when he asks for a private meeting with Wes, he doesn't show up. Wes, marking it down to the man being as unreliable now as he was in university, tries to put it out of his mind. For so...more
The book starts with a woman being burned to death in Grandal Field in Devon, a horrible death since it turns out that the woman was alive when she burned.
For a long time the police have no idea about the woman's identity, but Wesley Peterson suspects she might be a woman called Nadia, who an old college friend who Wesley and Pam met in France was concerned about. But there are other possibilities.
And to make the matter more intriguing, the woman was burned in a spot where, according to legend...more
For a long time the police have no idea about the woman's identity, but Wesley Peterson suspects she might be a woman called Nadia, who an old college friend who Wesley and Pam met in France was concerned about. But there are other possibilities.
And to make the matter more intriguing, the woman was burned in a spot where, according to legend...more
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I'd pretty much given up on this series. Despite enjoying reading the books I was finding the closely coupled present day and historical mysteries a bit much. Find my previous write-ups for more detail!
However I was trawling the library for books to take on holiday - to Dartmouth - and though it'd be fun to read another of these and see what the characters were up to. The books are set in a thinly veiled version of Dartmouth known as Tradmouth in the story. And indeed it was fun to read a story...more
However I was trawling the library for books to take on holiday - to Dartmouth - and though it'd be fun to read another of these and see what the characters were up to. The books are set in a thinly veiled version of Dartmouth known as Tradmouth in the story. And indeed it was fun to read a story...more
Another "page turner" from Kate Ellis, set in Devon, it concerns a number of murder victims burned to death, and as before Kate Ellis runs the main plot alongside a historical mystery. An enjoyable whodunnit.
Jul 13, 2011
Sue Deas
added it
Easy read. Ending easy to figure out. Well done. Kept my attention until the end.
Honestly, didn't finish this one, but might at a later date.
Mar 21, 2013
Sandra
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1 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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started-to-read-but-stopped
Just wasn't my cup of tea....
Another good read from this author.
Not one of her best but still quite a good story although I guessed a good bit of the twists and that spoils a book for me. I like to be surprised by an ending.
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Feb 22, 2013
Sonja
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Kate Ellis was born and brought up in Liverpool and she studied drama in Manchester. She worked in teaching, marketing and accountancy before first enjoying writing success as a winner of the North West Playwrights competition. Crime and mystery stories have always fascinated her, as have medieval history and archaeology which she likes to incorporate in her books. She is married with two grown up...more
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