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

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This is extremely difficult to do because author Kate Ellis is one of the best at supplying some first-class misdirection. But I was surprised at how well the book went, how easy it was to pick up the plot considering this series has been going on with this book being number 26.

Claye's journal entries gave me delicious little shivers because they reminded me so much of Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess".I was checking this blog and learned that I hadn't read one from 2011 so I'll be getting to that eventually but right now I have a shelf full of books from the library. The plot is simple really and gradually builds up where over the last 100 pages of the book there’s a slow unravel of information. When a skeleton is uncovered, the pressure rises to find a killer, and Wesley and Neil realise that Serpent's Point holds more secrets than anyone could have imagined. Then we move forward five years to the discovery of the dead body of a woman probably in her early thirties lying on a costal path.

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: ". I've read all books in this series and this one didn't disappoint, though I did get a bit confused with the number of characters appearing and had look back sometimes to remember who was who. A predator is finding vulnerable women, draining their resources and disposing of them in various ways. When the body of Susan Brown turns up dead, DI Wesley Petersen is set the task of finding her murderer. You could easily slip into this series with Serpent's Point because Ellis does a good job of supplying enough backstory to answer questions without bogging down the plot.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.