- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Piatkus Books; New edition edition (30 Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749932694
- ISBN-13: 978-0749932695
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.6 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,093,601 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A beguiling author who interweaves past and present. (The Times) (Detective fiction with a historical twist, fans...will love it. (Scotland on Sunday) )
She writes well...recounted with pleasant wit and a genuine feeling. (Birmingham Post) (Kate Ellis gets my personal vote as Most Promising New Crime Writer. (Sherlock Magazine) ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
She writes well...recounted with pleasant wit and a genuine feeling. (Birmingham Post) (Kate Ellis gets my personal vote as Most Promising New Crime Writer. (Sherlock Magazine) ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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The 5th book in Kate Ellis' Wesley Peterson series
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Brain Willerby, partner in the firm of Blake, Willerby and Johns, Solicitors, sat staring at the file on his desk, his heart pounding and his mouth dry. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover
Brain Willerby, partner in the firm of Blake, Willerby and Johns, Solicitors, sat staring at the file on his desk, his heart pounding and his mouth dry. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
"The Bone Garden" continues Kate Ellis' creative mixture of concurrent archaelogical and criminal investigations in the fictional Devon town of Tradmouth. Restoration work on a late 17th century Devon garden at a country house called Earlsacre unearths the remains of a young woman, buried alive during the original construction. As the work continues, more bodies are discovered, and the archaelogical team piece together the story behind their finds with the aid of historical records. As an archaelogy graduate, Detective Sergeant Wesley Petersen has an interest in the Earlsacre finds over and above that required by his job; but his enthusiasm to be involved has to be postponed when a solicitor meets an unusual and untimely end, during the tea interval at a village cricket match in which Wesley was playing. As the investigation progresses, parallels between the murders of yesteryear and the present day begin to emerge. The fifth Wesley Petersen novel, "The Bone Garden" is the best yet. Kate Ellis is developing her main characters well, and the reader is eager to learn more about them, not just concerned with the main storyline. Above all, like it's prequels, "The Bone Garden" is a ripping yarn - or rather two yarns, as the historical sub-plot which begins each chapter is a good story in its own right! New readers will enjoy this novel, and then seek out the earlier books to find out more about Wes and co. Like me, they will then eagerly await the next instalment!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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The archeological mystery is quite a popular sub-genre with many avid mystery lovers. However, it is not an easy sub-genre to execute brilliantly. Kate Ellis, however, has been cleverly penning the masterfully engrossing and addicting Wesley Peterson mystery series for quite a few years now. So that one really beings to wonder why this mystery series hasn't been heralded with greater fanfare!
Earlsacre Hall (in Devon) has recently been sold to a charitable trust with an eye of turning the entire estate into an art centre. And one of the first projects is to restore the seventeenth century garden to its former glory. The escavation and restoration work is going swimmingly until the workers make an unsettling find: the remains of a woman who had been buried alive in the garden almost 300 years ago. Naturally the police are called in; and DS Wesley Peterson of Tradmouth CID finds himself becoming really intrigued by the find. A former archeology student, DS Wesley Peterson would rather like to get involved in solving the mystery of the woman's identity and why she was buried in the garden, but a current murder drags him away from the tantalizing find at Earlsacre: a young man is found brutally stabbed to death is his rented trailer nearby. Who he is and why he was murdered remains a mystery; but intriguingly a newspaper clipping about the escavation and restoration work going on at Earlsacre is found amongst his belongings. What is the connection between Earlsacre and the murdered young man? As the body count, both from the past and present mount, Peterson is determined to uncover this connection and to put an end to this current murderer's cold-blooded killings...
This is the fifth Wesley Peterson archeology murder mystery, and it is one of the better ones. Tightly woven and suspenseful from start to finish, I found it very hard indeed to put down "The Bone Garden" until I had reached the last page. Kate Ellis definitely knows how to spin a good yarn. I espeically liked the manner in which she blended the 300 year old mystery with the current one practically seamlessly. Colourful, vivid and terrfically engrosing, "The Bone Garden" definitely was a fantastic read, and one that should not be missed by any avid mystery fan.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Wesley Peterson is an Afro-Caribbean police detective who also has a first class degree in archaeology - a great combination! He based in Devon and becomes involved in the murder of a young unidentified man in a caravan park. A local solicitor gets in touch with Peterson to say he has something to tell him - but is found dead before the meeting takes place. At the same time excavations are going on in the garden of a nearby manor house. When skeletons are unearthed there the coroner has to be informed and the mystery deepens. A team of archaeologists is based there including Peterson's old friend Neil and they share information about the history of Earlsacre Hall gardens.
All the plotting is well worked out and there are some really interesting parallels between the late 17th century/early 18th century events and the present day crimes.
All in all a fun read.
All the plotting is well worked out and there are some really interesting parallels between the late 17th century/early 18th century events and the present day crimes.
All in all a fun read.
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Buried alive
A skeleton is found buried under a sundial when the gardens at Earlsacre Hall are being renovated. It appears the body had been buried alive - an image which haunts Wesley... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Damaskcat
The best so far...
The Wesley Peterson murder mystery series is thoroughly enjoyable and easy to read but the historical reference makes it more intellectual than the average murder mystery. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Fiona
Murder, past and present
First Sentence: The man stared at the shape lying beneath the faded cover on the ancient iron bed and took another sip of wine. Read more
Published 23 months ago by L. J. Roberts
Ms Ellis triumphs again
The continuing saga of Wesley Petterson is once again wrapped in old and new mystery. The bodies are discovered and our hero's are beset with clues ancient and modern. Read more
Published on 12 May 2001 by grayhoward@home.com
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