Kate Ellis
BIOGRAPHY
Kate’s writing career began when she won the North West Playwrights Competition in 1990. However, she ’turned to crime’ in 1998 with her first novel ’The Merchant’s House’ and she has had eight book published to date with her ninth, ’A Cursed Inheritance’, out in March 2005. Her books, featuring Devon based detectives DI Wesley Peterson and DCI Gerry Heffernan, have been described by ’Scotland on Sunday’ as ’traditional detective fiction with a historical twist’ and by ’The Bookseller’ as ’unputdownable’.
As well as her full length crime novels, Kate has written short stories for anthologies and for Ellery Queen Magazine in the USA. Her story ’Les Inconnus’ was shortlisted for the Crime Writers’Association Short Story Dagger in 2003.
Kate has given numerous talks in libraries and bookshops.
WEBSITE
GENRE
Crime
PUBLICATIONS | PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Novels:
The Merchant’s House
The Armada Boy
An Unhallowed Grave
The Funeral Boat
The Bone Garden
A Painted Doom
The Skeleton Room
The Plague Maiden All published by Piatkus
Short Stories:
The Virgin’s Circlet - Chronicles of Crime (Headline)
The Odour of Sanctity - The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries (Constable & Robinson)
The Fury of the Northmen - Murder Through the Ages (Headline)
The Isle of Saints - The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits (Constable & Robinson)
The Vacancy - Ellery Queen Magazine
Bringing the Foot - The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits (Constable & Robinson)
The Wonders of Technology - Ellery Queen Magazine
Les Inconnus - Crime in the City (CWA Anthology - Do Not Press)
The Angel of Manton Worthy - Green for Danger (CWA Anthology - Do Not Press)
Dead Water - Ellery Queen Magazine
Top Deck - Crime on the Move (CWA Anthology - Do Not Press)
WORKSHOP | READINGS EXPERIENCE","REFERENCE/S
Talks and readings for libraries, book shops and groups.
REFERENCE/S
Piatkus Books. 5 Windmill Street. London W1P1HF
GROUP SIZE PREFERENCE
Any
GROUP AGE PREFERENCE
Adult
WORKING LANGUAGE/S
English
AREA/S PREPARED TO TRAVEL
Greater Manchester, North Cheshire, South Liverpoo
OTHER INFORMATION
No
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