Kate Ellis is a British author of crime fiction, [1] 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, [2] 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. [3] [4]
Ellis has also the written five novels set in Yorkshire as part of the Joe Plantagenet series [5] and an historical crime novel, The Devil's Priest, which is set in 16th century Liverpool. [6] 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. [7]
Ellis was the winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award 2019
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