An Unhallowed Grave by Kate Ellis

An Unhallowed Grave by Kate Ellis

When the body of Pauline Brent is found hanging from a yew tree in a local graveyard, DS Wesley Peterson immediately suspects foul play. Then history provides him with a clue. Wesley's archaeologist friend, Neil Watson, has excavated a corpse at his nearby dig - a young woman who, local legend has it, had been publicly hanged from the very same tree before being buried on unhallowed ground five centuries ago.

Wesley is now forced to consider the possibility that the killer knows the tree's dark history. Has Pauline also been 'executed' rather than murdered, and, if so, for what crime? To catch a dangerous killer Wesley has to discover as much as he can about the victim. But Pauline appears to have been a woman with few friends, no relatives and a past she has carefully tried to hide . . .

Kate Ellis was born and raised in Liverpool, and she went to Manchester to study acting. She worked in teaching, marketing, and accounting before winning the North West Playwrights competition and becoming a published playwright. She has always been attracted by crime and mystery stories, as well as medieval history and archaeology, which she likes to weave into her books. She lives with her husband, two sons, and an overweight cat named Vivaldi in North Cheshire, England.