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[[:Category:Kate Ellis|Kate Ellis's]] books nimbly mix history with mystery in the present day but this time we also have a neat nod to the internet and games with a fantasy website called Shipworld where John Palkin is a supernatural hero and many of those involved in the case are referenced on the site. To complicate matters further there's also a link to the nineteenth century and a descendant of John Palkin - although here the reader knows more than the detectives.
It seem to have become a tradition that fictional detectives have to be hard-drinking, ungodly womanisers and I'm pleased that Kate Ellis has bucked the trend. I was very impressed by [[Playing With Bones (DI Joe Plantagenet) by Kate Ellis|D I Joe Plantagenet]] in her series set in North Yorkshire. Wesley Peterson might not be immune to temptation but he's an honest man, conscious of his work and his family responsibilities. He's of West Indian descent but it was pleasing reassuring that Ellis didn't make ''too'' much of this.
As with all Ellis's book the research is impeccable but she resists the temptation to shoehorn in every fact she can lay her hands on. I found the book ''slightly'' long but that could be because I'm no aficionado of historical festivals but it was still a good read with some twists which I didn't see coming.
