The Funeral Boat Av Kate Ellis

<P><B>''The chilling plot will keep you spooked and thrilled to the end'' </B><I><B>Closer</B></I><br><br>When a skeleton is discovered on a Devon smallholding, DS Wesley Peterson, a keen amateur archaeologist, is intrigued by the possibility that it is a Viking corpse buried in keeping with ancient traditions. But he has a rather more urgent crime to solve, when a Danish tourist is reported missing. <br><br>Wesley finds disturbing evidence that the woman has been abducted. His boss Gerry Heffernan believes that Ingeborg''s disappearance is linked to a spate of brutal robberies and that she witnessed something she shouldn''t have. <br><br>But is her disappearance linked to far older events? For it seems that this may not have been Ingeborg''s first visit to this far from quiet West Country backwater . . .<br><br><B>Whether you''ve read the whole series, or are discovering Kate Ellis''s DI Wesley Peterson novels for the first time, this is the perfect, gripping mystery if you love reading Elly Griffiths and Ann Cleeves.</B></P>