The Blood Pit
Kate Ellis is a crime fiction writer known for her ability to incorporate medieval history and archaeology in her crime and mystery novels. The historical facts used to illustrate Kate’s novels enrich their plots providing readers not only with the excitement of solving mysteries, but also with interesting facts about the medieval times.
The Wesley Peterson series is an example of her mystery and history blend. It is an exciting series of eighteen crime novels in which she follows the path of the archaeology graduate police detective Wesley Peterson, in county Devon, South West England who lives a constant internal battle trying to balance professional and family life.
The Blood Pit is the twelfth of the series. DI Wesley Peterson …show more content…
This action suggests some sort of significance in the way the victims were killed, instigating the readers’ imagination and living something in the air.
Considering the similarities in which the two victims were killed, DI Peterson and his team, try to find a connection between them. During the investigations, they learn that the two victims were the opposite of each other. The first one was described as an evil person, that had not been short of enemies, fact that generates a great cast of possible suspects. In contrast, the second victim was a peaceful even-tempered man. Why would someone want to kill …show more content…
Members of the public could for a price, take part in a dig, supervised and instructed by professional archaeologists.
The mysterious letters began to arrive following his appearance on TV, they mentioned blood-letting rituals performed on medieval monks in Veland Abbey’s Seyney house, and a certain monk Brother William, who lived in the abbey and seemed to have suffered some sort of abuse and cruelty.
While digging up the remains of the medieval site, Neil finds a strange blood pit. Similarly to the blood-rituals mentioned in the anonymous letters, the site had also been a place where these rituals happened, dating back to the days of Henry VIII. Neil concludes that someone working in his digs might have been the author of the letters. The author uses this information as an excellent misdirection and leads the readers to look in another direction trying to find a connection between the blood pit and the blood murders.
Meanwhile, the crime investigation leads to many suspects and revealing truths about the
Kate Ellis is a crime fiction writer known for her ability to incorporate medieval history and archaeology in her crime and mystery novels. The historical facts used to illustrate Kate’s novels enrich their plots providing readers not only with the excitement of solving mysteries, but also with interesting facts about the medieval times.
The Wesley Peterson series is an example of her mystery and history blend. It is an exciting series of eighteen crime novels in which she follows the path of the archaeology graduate police detective Wesley Peterson, in county Devon, South West England who lives a constant internal battle trying to balance professional and family life.
The Blood Pit is the twelfth of the series. DI Wesley Peterson …show more content…
This action suggests some sort of significance in the way the victims were killed, instigating the readers’ imagination and living something in the air.
Considering the similarities in which the two victims were killed, DI Peterson and his team, try to find a connection between them. During the investigations, they learn that the two victims were the opposite of each other. The first one was described as an evil person, that had not been short of enemies, fact that generates a great cast of possible suspects. In contrast, the second victim was a peaceful even-tempered man. Why would someone want to kill …show more content…
Members of the public could for a price, take part in a dig, supervised and instructed by professional archaeologists.
The mysterious letters began to arrive following his appearance on TV, they mentioned blood-letting rituals performed on medieval monks in Veland Abbey’s Seyney house, and a certain monk Brother William, who lived in the abbey and seemed to have suffered some sort of abuse and cruelty.
While digging up the remains of the medieval site, Neil finds a strange blood pit. Similarly to the blood-rituals mentioned in the anonymous letters, the site had also been a place where these rituals happened, dating back to the days of Henry VIII. Neil concludes that someone working in his digs might have been the author of the letters. The author uses this information as an excellent misdirection and leads the readers to look in another direction trying to find a connection between the blood pit and the blood murders.
Meanwhile, the crime investigation leads to many suspects and revealing truths about the