Kate Ellis is a British author of
crime fiction, best known for a series of detective novels, which blends history with mystery, featuring policeman Wesley Peterson.
Ellis' first novel, ''Merchant's House'', published in 1998,
received positive reviews and was chosen as one of the ten best summer reads by ''Woman's Weekly''. She has since written 25 more novels in this series, many to critical acclaim.
Ellis has also the written five novels set in Yorkshire as part of the Joe Plantagenet series
[SEEKING THE DEAD, by Kate Ellis]
''Reviewing the Evidence''. and an historical crime novel, ''The Devil's Priest'', which is set in 16th century Liverpool.
More recently, ''A High Mortality of Doves,'' ''The Boy Who Lived With The Dead'' and ''The House of the Hanged Woman'' comprised a trilogy set in the aftermath of the First World War, featuring DI Albert Lincoln.
She was elected a member of
The Detection Club
The Detection Club was formed in 1930 by a group of British Mystery fiction, mystery writers, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Arthur Morrison, Hugh Walpole, John Rhode, Jessie Louisa Rickard, Jessi ...
in 2014 and is a member of the
Crime Writers Association
The Crime Writers' Association (CWA) is a specialist authors’ organisation in the United Kingdom, most notable for its Dagger awards for the best crime writing of the year, and the Diamond Dagger awarded to an author for lifetime achievement. T ...
.
Ellis was the winner of the ''CWA
Dagger in the Library'' Award 2019
Novels
;Featuring Wesley Peterson
* ''The Merchant's House'', 1998
* ''The Armada Boy'', 1999
* ''An Unhallowed Grave'', 1999
* ''The Funeral Boat'', 2000
* ''The Bone Garden'', 2001
* ''A Painted Doom'', 2002
* ''The Skeleton Room'', 2003
* ''The Plague Maiden'', 2004
* ''A Cursed Inheritance'', 2005
* ''The Marriage Hearse'', 2006
* ''The Shining Skull'', 2007
* ''The Blood Pit'', 2008
* ''A Perfect Death'', 2009
* ''The Flesh Tailor'', 2010
* ''The Jackal Man'', 2011
* ''The Cadaver Game'', 2012
* ''The Shadow Collector'', 2013
* ''The Shroud Maker'', 2014
* ''The Death Season'', 2015
* ''The House of Eyes'', 2016
* ''The Mermaid's Scream'', 2017
*''The Mechanical Devil'', 2018
*''Dead Man's Lane'', 2019
*''The Burial Circle'', 2020
*''The Stone Chamber'', 2021
*''Serpent’s Point'', 2023
;Featuring Joe Plantagenet
* ''Seeking the Dead'', 2008
* ''Playing with Bones'', 2009
* ''Kissing the Demons'', 2011
* ''Watching the Ghosts'', 2012
* ''Walking by the Night'', 2015
;Others
* ''The Devil's Priest'', 2006 (historical novel)
* ''A High Mortality of Doves'' (the first of the Albert Lincoln trilogy), 2016
*''The Boy Who Lived With The Dead'' (the second of the Albert Lincoln trilogy)'', 2018''
*''The House of the Hanged Woman'' (the third of the Albert Lincoln trilogy), 2020
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British crime fiction writers