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Kate Ellis

ケイト・エリス

Keito Erisu

Profile

Gender
Female
Nationality
United Kingdom
Languages
English

Career

Occupations
novelist, crime fiction author
Active Years
1998-2023
Memberships
The Detection Club, Crime Writers' Association

Awards

Dagger in the Library Award
2019
Organization: Crime Writers' Association
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Merchant's House

1998 Crime fiction

First novel in the Wesley Peterson series, which received positive reviews and was chosen as one of Woman's Weekly's ten best summer reads.

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The Devil's Priest

2006 Historical crime novel

Historical crime novel set in 16th century Liverpool.

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A High Mortality of Doves

2016 Crime fiction

First of the Albert Lincoln trilogy set in the aftermath of the First World War.

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Seeking the Dead

2008 Crime fiction

First in the Joe Plantagenet series set in Yorkshire.

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Bibliography

  • The Merchant's House
  • The Armada Boy
  • An Unhallowed Grave
  • The Funeral Boat
  • The Bone Garden
  • A Painted Doom
  • The Skeleton Room
  • The Plague Maiden
  • A Cursed Inheritance
  • The Marriage Hearse
  • The Shining Skull
  • The Blood Pit
  • A Perfect Death
  • The Flesh Tailor
  • The Jackal Man
  • The Cadaver Game
  • The Shadow Collector
  • The Shroud Maker
  • The Death Season
  • The House of Eyes
  • The Mermaid's Scream
  • The Mechanical Devil
  • Dead Man's Lane
  • The Burial Circle
  • The Stone Chamber
  • Serpent’s Point
  • Seeking the Dead
  • Playing with Bones
  • Kissing the Demons
  • Watching the Ghosts
  • Walking by the Night
  • The Devil's Priest
  • A High Mortality of Doves
  • The Boy Who Lived With The Dead
  • The House of the Hanged Woman

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Blends history with mystery in crime fiction

Legacy

British author of crime fiction best known for the detective novels featuring policeman Wesley Peterson, blending history with mystery. Many novels in the series received critical acclaim. Elected member of The Detection Club in 2014 and winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award in 2019.