The Cadaver Game

The 16th Wesley Peterson novelintricately plotted detective stories, with an intelligent historical slant When the decaying body of a murdered woman is discovered in a suburban house following an anonymous tip off, DI Peterson has problems establishing her true identity. But as he digs deeper, he has another disturbing case to investigatethe naked bodies of two teenagers have been found with fatal shotgun wounds at the foot of a cliff. As Wesley searches for the truth, both cases become stranger, especially when he finds a connection between a sinister manhunt mirroring events from the time of the Napoleonic Wars, and an online game called Blood Hunt that's gripped the imagination of local teenagers. Then, as a skeleton is found near the place where the dead teenagers were last seen alive, Wesley finally has to face a terrible truthand a hunt to the death.

Kate Ellis is the author of the Wesley Peterson Series and the Joe Plantagenet series and has twice been nominated for the Crime Writers' Association Short Story Dagger.