Dead Man's Lane: Book 23 in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series

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The camp is believed to have been founded between 43 and 68AD and occupied until the Roman withdrawal from Britain around 410. There is however an excavation underway at Temples former home, Strangefields Farm, where Wesley's friend, Dr Neil Watson, is in charge. The usual mixture of an old historic case, a modern series of crimes and the discovery of a diary which explains the historic case.

Dead Man's Lane is the twenty-third instalment of this superb police procedural series featuring DI Wesley Peterson and based in the stunning Devon countryside. the flat characters (Tim is always surrounded by women whose main characteristic is how much they are drawn towards him; Pam is mainly ill and very insecure; Della is mainly egoistic and a nuisance; Jerry is mainly a jolly-grouchy northerner. A hair-raising bike ride down an almost forgotten lane; a sinister owl with human characteristics and a child ghost that intends to make his friends spirits as well make this a gripping collection. I thoroughly enjoyed Dead Man’s Lane which is a good mixture of police procedural and historical investigation. Temple has always denied his guilt and spoke of a fellow artist who had a studio in his home, Strangefields.After the murders were discovered the other artist, Jonny Sykes, disappeared and was never found so the authorities believe that the murderer simply made him up.

If you're in the mood for a long-running, high quality mystery series in which the cast of characters become friends and family, start at the beginning with The Merchant's House. I confess that I have not read any of the previous installments of this series, and so those may have revealed more about the characters and built a more solid and interesting family. Just think, next time you touch wood or cross your fingers, you’re joining in with this long tradition. On today’s Bygones feature Margaret Mills told us the all about the legend attaching to Deadman’s Lane in Galleywood.One from the past as skeletons halt a current housing development, and one from the present as a convicted criminal declares his innocence, new victims are found, and supposedly dead people reappear years later. So even though I have appreciated the obvious giant amount of work that has been put in the series I felt more annoyed and impatient than usual with this particular one and I think this will now be my last one. I do admit that I had to smile when I learned that developers were turning the former home of a serial killer with an address on Dead Man's Lane into luxury holiday homes.

Everything about the gruesome slaying reminds them of the decades-old case of serial killer Jackson Temples who was convicted of bumping off four women and sentenced to a 30-year prison term for his barbaric actions. This story follows those guidelines, but we begin to see why Wesley is still a DI after so many investigations. Then when a local florist is found murdered in an echo of Temples’ crimes, Wesley fears that a copy-cat killer is at large. Even up to the twentieth century ‘protection’ marks (such as religious symbols) have been put on the thresholds of buildings and objects such as shoes hidden in vulnerable parts of a house to keep evil at bay.Gruesome murders had happened there, and when developers began work there and uncovered several skeletons, the killings start again, despite Jackson Temple -the man convicted of those murders and house's original owner - being in prison.

Ellis sets her Wesley Peterson novels in Devon, where he's the first black officer at his level in the station where he works, but interestingly she disguises placenames; eg her 'Tradmouth', I'm guessing, is Dartmouth, whilst 'Neston', given Ellis' description of it, is most likely to be Totnes. Dead Man’s Lane is the 23 rd in the DI Wes Patterson series, but in-line with the precursors, it works well as a standalone murder mystery. I reached the spot with the greyhounds on a warm summer afternoon, just as a pheasant burst from a nearby hedge, feathers scattering into the air.Running concurrently through the narrative is Ellis’s trademark, a historical murder with the Great Fire of London as a backdrop. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. No one knows how Dead Man's Lane got it's name but everyone's heard of the notorious Strangefields Farm. There are a number of characters attempting to stay under the radar for various reasons with many secrets to be uncovered before more loss of life.