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Seeking The Dead: Book 1 in the DI Joe Plantagenet crime series
By (Author) Kate Ellis
Little, Brown Book Group
Piatkus Books
1st February 2009
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
336
Width 127mm, Height 179mm, Spine 22mm
204g
When Carmel Hennessy begins a new job in North Yorkshire, she finds the historic city of Eborby gripped by fear. A killer is on the prowl - a killer who binds and asphyxiates his victims before leaving their naked bodies in isolated country churchyards. The press are calling him the Resurrection Man.
Tragic events from the past link Carmel with new-kid-on-the-block DI Joe Plantagenet, who, with his new boss, DCI Emily Thwaite, faces the unenviable task of identifying the killer before he claims another victim. The victims appear to have nothing in common but the manner of their deaths, but as Joe's investigations lead him to a pub with a sinister history, he is forced to consider that the case may have occult connections. Then Carmel becomes aware of a malevolent presence in her new flat and, when she starts to receive mysterious threats, it is Joe she turns to first. And that is when Joe is forced to get into the mind of a cunning - and scarily ruthless - killer.'Ellis unfolds an intricate yarn...with all the assurance of a seasoned veteran of the genre' Publishers Weekly 'Star author. Unputdownable' The Bookseller
Kate Ellis was born in Liverpool and studied drama in Manchester. Kate has twice been nominated for the Crime Writers Association Short Story Dagger and the novel The Plague Maiden was nominated for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year in 2005.