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If you're looking for a light, entertaining mystery, The Bone Garden should do the trick. Ellis is a competent writer who can intertwine plotlines and keep dialogue moving. But my opinion of Bone Garden isn't quite as glowing as other reviewers', mainly because the solution to the central mystery becomes evident about 2/3 of the way through. Characters are also somewhat two dimensional, with their relationships weakly portrayed. Wesley seems rather distant from his wife, for example, and shows little emotion regardless of circumstance. Worth reading, nonetheless.

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intriguing parallels - archaeology and modern police investigation
This is my first Wesley Peterson mystery, which I devoured avidly in one day. Kate Ellis weaves two murder investigations into an exciting and well plotted story. Her protagonist, Wesley Peterson, a detective with a degree in archaeology, and his partner, Gerry Heffernan, a seasoned and experienced detective, uncover clues and deal with interwoven subplots as they work to solve several recent murders. <
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>Interesting and realistic parallels between archaeology and police procedures - both painstaking seek to decipher clues to solve mysteries. The current murders in the story have intriguing parallels with the human skeletons found in an archaeological reconstruction. Opening each chapter with a brief letter from the distant past sets a tone for that chapter, obviously drawn from detailed research on Ms. Ellis's part. <
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>The clues, red herrings, plots and subplots all move quickly and are tightly written. She creates a life for and gives substance to not only the main characters, but a number of supporting characters. Even though I have not read the previous Peterson mysteries, I found it easy to follow the story line and the background lives of the characters. <
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>I look forward to reading the earlier Wesley Peterson mysteries, and hope for more to come.

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a terrifically engrossing read
The archeological mystery is quite a popular sub-genre with many avid mystery lovers. However, it is not an easy sub-genre to execute brilliantly. Kate Ellis, however, has been cleverly penning the masterfully engrossing and addicting Wesley Peterson mystery series for quite a few years now. So why hasn't her Wesley Peterson mystery series been heralded with greater fanfare? It's not a series readily available on bookstore shelves, which is a shame because, truly this is a series that's worth taking note of and keeping an eye out for! <
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>Earlsacre Hall (in Devon) has recently been sold to a charitable trust with an eye of turning the entire estate into an art centre. And one of the first projects is to restore the seventeenth century garden to its former glory. The escavation and restoration work is going swimmingly until the workers make an unsettling find: the remains of a woman who had been buried alive in the garden almost 300 years ago. Naturally the police are called in; and DS Wesley Peterson of Tradmouth CID finds himself becoming really intrigued by the find. A former archeology student, DS Wesley Peterson would rather like to get involved in solving the mystery of the woman's identity and why she was buried in the garden, but a current murder drags him away from the tantalizing find at Earlsacre: a young man is found brutally stabbed to death is his rented trailer nearby. Who he is and why he was murdered remains a mystery; but intriguingly a newspaper clipping about the escavation and restoration work going on at Earlsacre is found amongst his belongings. What is the connection between Earlsacre and the murdered young man? As the body count, both from the past and present mount, Peterson is determined to uncover this connection and to put an end to this current murderer's cold-blooded killings... <
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>This is the fifth Wesley Peterson archeology murder mystery, and it is one of the better ones. Tightly woven and suspenseful from start to finish, I found it very hard indeed to put down "The Bone Garden" until I had reached the last page. Kate Ellis definitely knows how to spin a good yarn. I espeically liked the manner in which she blended the 300 year old mystery with the current one practically seamlessly. Colourful, vivid and terrfically engrosing, "The Bone Garden" definitely was a fantastic read, and one that should not be missed by any avid mystery fan.