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by Kate Ellis (Author) "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..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Piatkus Books; New edition edition (8 Jun 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 074993705X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749937058
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 22,755 in Books (See Bestsellers 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)

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An excavation at the lost gardens of Earlsacre Hall is called to a halt when a skeleton is discovered under a 300 year old stone plinth, a corpse that seems to have been buried alive. But DS Wesley Peterson has little time to indulge in his hobby of archaeology. He has a more recent murder case to solve. A man has been found stabbed to death in a caravan at a popular holiday park and the only clue to his identity is a newspaper cutting about the restoration of Earlsacre. Does local solicitor Brian Willerby have the answer? He seems eager to talk to Wesley but before he can reveal his secret he is found dead during a 'friendly' game of village cricket, apparently struck by a cricket ball several times with some force. If Wesley is looking for a demon bowler this appears to let out most of the village side. But what is it about Earlsacre Hall that leads people to murder?

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5.0 out of 5 stars A clever weave of historical and modern detective writing., 9 April 2001
By hudson@ls15.freeserve.co.uk (Leeds, Yorkshire, England.) - See all my reviews
"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!
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5.0 out of 5 stars a very engrossing read, 16 Jun 2005
By tregatt (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ms Ellis triumphs again, 12 May 2001
By grayhoward@home.com (Vancouver. Canada.) - See all my reviews
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. This book brings the lives of two generations to life with thrilling twists and turns which keep the reader absorbed to the last page. I do hope that there will be many more in this excellent series and eagerly await the sixth book.
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