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Book ReviewsThe Bone Garden (WWL Mystery) |
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Book: The Bone Garden (WWL Mystery)
Written by: Kate Ellis |
Publisher: Worldwide Library
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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a terrifically engrossing read
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5 / 5
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 why hasn't her Wesley Peterson mystery series been heralded with greater fanfare? It's not a series readily available on bookstore shelves, which is a shame because, truly this is a series that's worth taking note of and keeping an eye out for!
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.
intertwining past and present murders
Rating:
5 / 5
Earlsacre Hall is undergoing renovations restoring the lost gardens to their natural splendor. In the process, two bodies are found. They were found under a splinth that was placed there in 1701. No sooner were the three hundred-year-old bodies found, than a man was found stabbed to death in a trailer. His identity is unknown. DI Gerry Hefferon and DS Wesley Peterson investigate. Little do they know that past and present murders are not only intertwined, they also mirror each other. This is the fifth in the Wesley Peterson crime series. Ellis's novel is rich in local color with likable protagonists and very effective secondary characters. This is a first-rate British police procedural. In each novel, the characters have continued to grow and taken us on their journey with them.
Best yet in this series
Rating:
5 / 5
I was so pleased to see this new book by Kate Ellis and I wasn't disappointed. I really enjoyed both mysteries in this one. The supporting characters were all interesting and original and I got a huge charge out of the mother-in-law. I hope Kate Ellis keeps going with this series because I've enjoyed all of the books. I think this book is the best so far. I think my teenage daughter would enjoy this series too.
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