The Blood Pit (Wesley Peterson Series) [Hardcover]

"'a beguiling author' - The Times 'increasingly impressive series...Ellis's speciality is to combine mysteries of past and present and here she excels herself, with an ingenious confection that had me guessing right to the end...a thoroughly enjoyable novel' - MARTIN EDWARDS 'Kate Ellis skilfully weaves crimes of past and present into a seamless narrative... The plotting is intricate and the finale totally unexpected. An agreeable mystery' - Gerald Kaufman, The Scotsman 'A well written book which kept me on the edge of my seat - it was a real page-turner and I didn't want to put it down' - Yours Magazine"

The 12th Wesley Peterson crime novel...and they just get better and better! --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

DI Wesley Peterson is called to an unusual crime scene. The victim, Charles Marrick, has been murdered, his body drained of blood. Described by those who knew him as 'evil', it seems that Wesley isn't going to have any shortage of suspects. But when a popular local vet is murdered in an identical fashion, Wesley wonders what the two men could possibly have in common.Meanwhile Wesley's archaeologist friend Neil Watson is alarmed when he starts getting disturbing anonymous letters writing in gory detail about macabre events at a medieval abbey. Neil fears that his letters are being sent by the killer Wesley is looking for. However, Wesley's investigation takes an unexpected twist when a third body is discovered many miles away.And Wesley has the additional problem of a skeleton found in nearby woodland, possibly that of a sex offender who disappeared twenty years before.Could there be a connection between all these deaths and Neil's letters?And could Neil himself be in danger?As the sinister truth unfolds, both Wesley and Neil are forced to face tragedy and shocking revelations?and a killer who bears the scars of past sins.

Kate Ellis was born and brought up in Liverpool and studied drama in Manchester. Keenly interested in medieval history and archaeology, she is married with two sons and lives in Cheshire. 'The Blood Pit' is her twelfth Wesley Peterson novel. The Merchant's House, the Armada Boy, An Unhallowed Grave, The Funeral Boat, The Bone Garden, A Painted Doom, The Skeleton Room, The Plague Maiden, A Cursed Inheritance, The Marriage Hearse and The Shining Skull are also published by Piatkus. Kate Ellis has twice been nominated for the Crime Writers' Association Short Story Dagger and the novel The Plague Maiden was nominated for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year in 2005.