Kate Ellis

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 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 in 2014 and is a member of the Crime Writers Association.

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, 2022 The Killing Place, 2023 Coffin Island, 2024 Deadly Remains, 2025

Featuring Joe Plantagenet Seeking the Dead, 2008

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