Author Event: Kate Ellis - Sutton-in-Ashfield Library

Join Kate Ellis author of the phenomenally popular D.I. Wesley Peterson series as she talks about her books, characters & inspiration.

Described by The Times as “a beguiling author who interweaves past and present”, she has written twenty-nine novels featuring archaeology graduate, DI Wesley Peterson, and six supernatural crime novels featuring DI Joe Plantagenet along with a trilogy, set in the aftermath of the First World War featuring Scotland Yard detective DI Albert Lincoln. 

Her latest Wesley Peterson novel Deadly Remains was published in August 2025 and her new Joe Plantagenet novel, Killing in the Shadows, was published in January 2026.

Kate has sold over a million books worldwide and has been twice shortlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger and was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library in 2019