Book Discussion : The Merchant’s House by Kate Ellis

This is the group for the book discussion by the Mystery and Suspense Group of The Merchant’s House by Kate Ellis, which is the first book in The Wesley Peterson Series.

All are welcome to join the discussion whether you are a member of the Mystery and Suspense Group or not, but please ensure that you you do not leave any spoilers if you finish the book before Tuesday 12th February when others will be reading the final section. Questions for each section will be posted on the following dates :

Schedule
Saturday 9th February : Prologue and Chapter 1 - 8
Sunday 10th February : Chapter 9 - 16
Monday 11th February : Chapter 17 - 23
Tuesday 12th February : Chapter 24 - 28 & Epilogue

Book Description (From www.kateellis.co.uk)

Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson's first day in his new posting in South Devon finds him investigating the brutal death of a young woman on a cliff path while his new colleagues are searching desperately for a missing child. Then Wesley's old friend from university, archaeologist Neil Watson, unearths the bodies of a strangled young woman and a new-born baby on the site of a seventeenth century merchant's house: though luckily for the overstretched police force the skeletons are centuries old. But as the search for the missing child intensifies and the true identity of the body on the cliff path is established, Wesley begins to suspect a tragic link, spanning the centuries, between his investigations and Neil's: for motives of jealousy, sexual obsession and desperate longing are as old as time. And when the dark secret of the merchant's house is finally revealed, Wesley must act swiftly to avert a further tragedy.