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

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I’m ashamed to say that I’ve forgotten much of the Latin I learned at school but perhaps I’ll give myself a refresher course so I can better understand these intriguing relics of the time when Rome ruled Britannia. 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.

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However, from time to time tantalising discoveries are made – a fragment of a hypocaust at Exmouth, a bronze figure at Sidmouth and a section of Roman road at Ipplepen (heading roughly in the direction of my fictional villa).Crime and mystery stories have always fascinated her, as have medieval history and archaeology which she likes to incorporate in her books. The Roman Heritage Museum housing Marcus Flavius Livius’s tombstone exists only in my imagination but many Roman finds from Exeter can be viewed at the city’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery.

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But, inevitably, a few might have met a tragic end, possibly at the hands of someone they trusted just as in Serpent’s Point. One case that caught my attention was that of a woman and her two children who vanished without trace from South Devon in the nineteen seventies. Whether you’ve read the whole series, or are discovering Kate Ellis’s DI Wesley Peterson novels for the first time, this is the perfect page-turner if you love reading Ann Cleeves and Elly Griffiths. I do hope you enjoy Wesley Peterson’s latest investigation – and the deadly mystery of Serpent’s Point. While the case takes Wesley to Yorkshire and the Cotswolds, archaeologist Neil Watson is making a dramatic discovery of his own in the fields near the house.Most archaeological evidence suggested that they set up a legionary fortress in Exeter (or Isca Dumnonia) in the first century AD then, faced with the need to support military campaigning in Wales and the North, the majority of troops were withdrawn and the former fort became an administrative centre for the region. The woman had been house-sitting at Serpent’s Point and Wesley is surprised to discover that she was conducting an investigation into unsolved missing persons cases. The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter.