Serpent's Point: Book 26 in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series

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Quite often it can be clunky when there are multiple time lines, but keeping the timeline in the past quite simply narrated really worked well. No matter how hard I try, I never figure it all out when I read one of her Wesley Peterson mysteries, and that makes the entire experience such a joy.

Susan is sure that her friend Avril's husband, Ian, is up to no good but Avril doesn't want to hear it.

When two teenage girls take their metal detectors to a field close to the old manor house, their find brings Neil into what could very well be a monumental discovery.

Also, that she had been conducting an investigation into unsolved missing person cases, in various parts of the country. When the body of Susan Brown turns up dead, DI Wesley Petersen is set the task of finding her murderer. A complex story, involving the detectives travelling to Yorkshire and the Cotswolds in their efforts to find out the reason for Susan's death. However, they have found some coins in the field and when Wesley sees them, he immediately contacts his university friend Neil Watson, with whom he had studied archaeology at Exeter university. There were elements in the story as I read that seemed familiar but it still felt as if I hadn’t read the book.In Serpent's Point, readers follow along with Wesley and Neil in the present day, but they're also treated to the journal entries of wannabe famous archaeologist Dr.

The three have been good friends since their university days, and it doesn't take much for Pam to realize that she chose the right man: ".There were a few other little leaps of logic in the book which also jarred slightly and could very easily have been smoothed out. As in every book of this series, there's a parallel story involving Wesley's archaeologist friend Neil Watson, who's excavating a possible Roman site near the scene of Susan's murder. Overall, it was an ok read and I may be inclined to give Kate Ellis's works another go as the style of her writing is enjoyable. Ellis connects archaeological studies of the past with present-day crimes, and the setting in Devonshire along with the other characters in the police station are also well-done.

In this case, Wesley, Gerry, and the team are trying to solve the murder of a young woman who was doing a bit of detective work of her own, trying to find the man who married and murdered one young woman, then married another (the woman's friend) who mysteriously disappeared. As Wesley delves into the life of the dead woman, he learns that she has been house sitting at Serpents Point, a large house near where she was found. I did knock it down one star because I felt as though there was too many characters involved and I was having a hard time trying to remember who was who and how it related to the plot. As he delves into the case, he starts to notice that there are other murders from around England that could be linked to why Susan had been killed. She has also twice been shortlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger and been longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.Neil not only gets to dig around in the attic for old documents, but his work in the field also garners the attention of nighthawks, and that leads to a stay with Wesley and Wesley's wife, Pam, who gave me the biggest laugh in the book.