{"product_id":"the-merchants-house","title":"The merchant's house","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e The merchant's house (Hardcover, 352 pages – St Martin's Press, 1998) – St Martin's Press, 1998. Language: Eng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Like New\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKate Ellis's wonderfully addictive series of West Country-set crime novels feature Wesley Peterson, one of Devon's first black detectives A black policeman from the Met might expect to meet some resistance, when he's transferred to a West Country seaside town—but, for DS Wesley Peterson, it's like coming home. One of the first people he bumps into is an old friend—Neil is heading an archaeological dig at a Tudor merchant's house, and Wesley has to tear himself away to become involved in a major search for a missing child. The tension is mounting when a body is found—but to Wesley's relief it is turned up at Neil’s dig and is more than 400 years old. It seems to be a tragic murder nonetheless, for the bones are those of a strangled young woman and a newborn baby. When another, more recent body is found, the circumstances surrounding the child's disappearance become more complex, and Wesley is increasingly convinced that the age-old motives of jealousy, sexual obsession, and desperate longing for a child are behind the crimes—ancient and modern—that he must solve soon if further tragedy is to be averted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kate Ellis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52367684862234,"sku":"9780749904548","price":136.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/2699\/9322\/files\/41SqLvEA6uL.jpg?v=1781733467","url":"https:\/\/medicampus.store\/products\/the-merchants-house","provider":"medicampus.store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}