The marriage hearse
By: by Kate Ellis
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: A Wesley Peterson murder mystery; Wesley Peterson murder mystery
Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780750527170
Subjects: Wesley Peterson (Fictitious character); Fiction; Police
Description: When Kirsten Harbourn is found strangled and naked on her wedding day, DI Wesley Peterson makes some alarming discoveries. Kirsten was being pursued by an obsessed stalker and she had dark secrets her doting flance, Peter, knew nothing about. But Kirsten's wasn't the only wedding planned to take place that July day in South Devon. At Morbay register office a terrified young girl makes her wedding vows. And a few days later her bridegroom is found dead in a seedy seaside hotel. As Wesley investigates he suspects that his death and his bride's subsequent disappearance might be linked to Kirsten's murder. Meanwhile the skeleton of a young female is found buried in a farmer's field - a field that once belonged to the family of Ralph Strong, an Elizabethan playwright whose play, 'The Fair Wife of Padua' is to be performed for the first time in four hundred years. Is this bloodthirsty play a confession to a murder committed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1? Or does it tell another story, one that might cast light on recent mysteries?
Notes: Originally published: London: Piatkus, 2006.