Kate Ellis was born and brought up in Liverpool and studied drama in Manchester. She is the award-winning author of the DI Wesley Peterson detective novels, as well as the Albert Lincoln trilogy and the Joe Plantagenet mysteries.

Kate has won the CWA Dagger in the Library Award for her crime writing. She has also twice been shortlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger and been longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.

Visit her online at: www.kateellis.co.uk

A beguiling author who interweaves past and present--The Times

Haunting--Independent

The chilling plot will keep you spooked and thrilled to the end--Closer

A traditional detective story with an intriguing historical twist . . . Ellis is a fine storyteller, weaving the past and present in a way that makes you want to read on--Peterborough Evening Telegraph

Star author. Unputdownable--Bookseller

One of the most striking elements of Ellis's Wesley Peterson series is her ability to keep the pages turning and her readers on their toes. . . . Mysteries steeped in spine-tingling atmospherics and set in intriguing locations - often incorporating gems of real history--Lancashire Evening Post

I loved this novel . . . Clever plotting hides a powerful story of loss, malice and deception

I absolutely loved this book . . . A perfectly paced crime novel thatbeautifully evokes both time and place. Kate Elliskeeps you guessing all the way through to the final unexpected twist

A splendidly macabre thrillerwith a very dark heart and a hugely effective twist at the end

Fascinating, with a characteristically clever twist

Imagine a plot as devious as anything Agatha Christie devised, locate it in a Derbyshire village in 1919 and with writing as close to the pulse as Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth and you will have some idea of the extraordinary power of Kate Ellis's new novel