Dead Man's Lane: Book 23 in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series

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Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. Strangefields Farm in Devon is being transformed into a holiday village, but its sinister past can't help but come barrelling into the present when a skull is found on the site. And when a local florist is found murdered in an echo of Temples' crimes, DI Wesley Peterson fears that a copy-cat killer is at large. Strangefields Farm is notorious for its sinister history ever since serial killer Jackson Temples lured young women to the premises, and the girls never left alive.

This story follows those guidelines, but we begin to see why Wesley is still a DI after so many investigations. I can't believe that Kate Ellis is up to number twenty-three already in her excellent Wesley Peterson series and, happily, she and her lead detective show no signs of flagging! I'm an archivist, so I find the idea that the characters can pick up a hundreds of years old hand-written diary and just read it quite amusing. The latest DI Wesley Peterson novels wasn't too bad, but it dodn't have me desparate to know what happened next.In the late 1990s Strangefields Farm became notorious after artist Jackson Temples had lured young women there to model for disturbing works of art. Running concurrently through the narrative is Ellis’s trademark, a historical murder with the Great Fire of London as a backdrop.

When the plague struck Mapperton - noone is sure whether it was during the 14th century plague or the one that struck in the 16th century - the villagers of Netherbury blocked the way so the plague victims didn't get buried in their village - for fear of infection.If only I could tell her – we go to every corner of the world, even to the moon and back, and yet nothing has really changed. Wesley's boss, Gerry Heffernan, worked on that case and remains convinced that Temples is guilty as sin. I also like the realistic way that other crimes and secrets get discovered and solved in the course of the investigation. In Dead Man’s Lane, Stangefields Farm has been notorious for its sinister history ever since artist Jackson Temples lured young women there to model for disturbing works of art. We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences.

Notoriously renowned for it's sinister haunted history, Strangefields Farm was used by a Jackson Temples, who lured young women there to model for disturbing works of art. No matter how loud, or how sharp her tone, the girl would have stayed, stood her ground where a tree now stands, eyes hazy, a posy on her wrist. There is just one book from this series I haven't yet read so I will soon make up for that before the newest book is released here in US later this summer. Quite important when most of the land was owned by our peers - many of them not wanting the hoi poli passing through their estates! The reanimated corpse appears to be a constant feature of folklore throughout many cultures, from Transylvanian vampires to Haitian zombies.It was previously the site of brutal murders of attractive females who all modelled for the artist who lived there and was convicted of the young women’s murders. One from the past as skeletons halt a current housing development, and one from the present as a convicted criminal declares his innocence, new victims are found, and supposedly dead people reappear years later. What's interesting is the east end of Deadman's Hole Lock, a navigation which skipped a meander of the Don, is opposite the site of a Roman camp. The Headless Cross, also known as the "Vinegar Stone" or "Plague Stone" at Friar Gate, Derby, England. The camp is believed to have been founded between 43 and 68AD and occupied until the Roman withdrawal from Britain around 410.

The misdirection served it's purpose as I wondered how the past and the present would collide, and which of the shady characters killed the girls. The skulls appeared to be over a hundred years old but their origin was a mystery – and I can never resist weaving a story around a mystery.It is the combination of a fiendishly difficult puzzle to solve running alongside a historical mystery that pulls me in every time. I had my suspicions as to who the murderer was and it was confirmed, but it was interesting to see how the author gets us to that conclusion. It has been claimed by some historians [ citation needed] that bodies were buried standing upright at St.