The Bone Garden

The fifth novel in Kate Ellis's wonderfully addictive Wesley Peterson series
An excavation at the lost gardens of Earlsacre Hall is halted when a skeleton is discovered beneath a 300-year-old stone plinth . . . the remains of a woman who was buried alive. But even when more skeletons turn up in the walled garden, DS Wesley Peterson has little time for archaeology. He has a far more recent murder case on his hands. A man has been stabbed to death at a popular holiday park and the only clue to his identity is a newspaper cutting about the restoration about Earlsacre Hall gardens.
Could local solicitor Brian Willerby have the answer? He is eager to talk to Wesley but before he can reveal his secret he is killed during a 'friendly' cricket match, apparently hit several times by a flying cricket ball.
What is it about Earlsacre Hall that leads people to murder? And what is the sinister secret of the bone garden? For someone close to Wesley, time is running out . . .

Kate Ellis was born and brought up in Liverpool and studied drama in Manchester. She is the award-winning author of the DI Wesley Peterson detective novels, as well as the Albert Lincoln trilogy and the Joe Plantagenet mysteries.
Kate has won the CWA Dagger in the Library Award for her crime writing. She has also twice been shortlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger and been longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.
Visit her online at: www.kateellis.co.uk