She worked in teaching, marketing and accountancy before first enjoying writing success as a winner of the North West Playwrights competition. Also, that she had been conducting an investigation into unsolved missing person cases, in various parts of the country. Susan was quite attractive and empathetic and, at one point, had an admirer who she thought of as a stalker.

Maybe it's time to ditch references to Wesley's and Rachel's non affair and how Wesley's wife used to date Neil many moons ago. It turns out that Susan is on a quest to learn more about her friend's husband who has disappeared completely. I've been a devoted fan of this series since the first book, and by this time, the entire cast has become family.Susan is sure that her friend Avril's husband, Ian, is up to no good but Avril doesn't want to hear it. There’s two plots that run alongside one another, one of the main investigation but another of a historical Roman archeological dig that’s occurring, which at first I didn’t like. When two teenage girls take their metal detectors to a field close to the old manor house, their find brings Neil into what could very well be a monumental discovery. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In Serpent's Point, readers follow along with Wesley and Neil in the present day, but they're also treated to the journal entries of wannabe famous archaeologist Dr.

The intermittent excerpts from the 1921 archaeological dig team didn't feel too relevant throughout the book and it didn't have too much impact on the ending which was disappointing. Meanwhile Neil, Wesley's friend from his days as an anthropology student, is excited to find what looks like the remains of a Roman village and we learn, through letters, that this is not a new discovery.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The book unfolds naturally and everything feels cohesive rather than forced which is rare to find now! In this case, Wesley, Gerry, and the team are trying to solve the murder of a young woman who was doing a bit of detective work of her own, trying to find the man who married and murdered one young woman, then married another (the woman's friend) who mysteriously disappeared. Interspersed with Wesley’s investigation there are several diary entries dating from May to June 1921 from the journal of Dr Aldus Claye, who at that time was also excited at a possible Roman settlement in his field.

Kate Ellis has created a likeable and interesting set of characters that develop as the series continues. As in every book of this series, there's a parallel story involving Wesley's archaeologist friend Neil Watson, who's excavating a possible Roman site near the scene of Susan's murder. and, once again, an amazing plot and the connections made between archaeology and the present time and crime are enthrauling. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The woman had been house-sitting at Serpent's Point and Wesley is surprised to discover that she was conducting an investigation into unsolved missing persons cases.Crime and mystery stories have always fascinated her, as have medieval history and archaeology which she likes to incorporate in her books. When the body of Susan Brown turns up dead, DI Wesley Petersen is set the task of finding her murderer.