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.
[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.
[7] Ellis was the winner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award 2019