Dead Man's Lane: Book 23 in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series

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Sailing By (One) by Jeremy Boyce When it’s lively like that you need the vision of Nostradamus just to steer through the Hokusais.

No matter how loud, or how sharp her tone, the girl would have stayed, stood her ground where a tree now stands, eyes hazy, a posy on her wrist. When part of the solution is that several people just left and changed their names -- but continued to work and travel and presumably get sick and register to drive etc. When a friend of Wesley comes down from London a architect re-doing strange fields in to holiday apartments she meets up with Wesley and says she’s seen someone who she thought was dead, but Wesley is caught up in a case of a woman’s murder who was murdered in the same way the murderer of Strange Fields farm is it a copy cat or is it the real murder? I'm an archivist, so I find the idea that the characters can pick up a hundreds of years old hand-written diary and just read it quite amusing. Interspersed with the police investigation are occasional entries from the journals of a 17th Century gentleman visiting Strangefields.It would appeal to anyone who loves the 'puzzle' kind of murder mystery or fans of authors who mix murder mysteries and archaeology, such as Elly Griffiths.

The unique and potent mix of police procedural and historical crime fiction makes this addictive and compulsively readable, and the plentiful twists, surprises and misdirection are executed adeptly. Strange fields farm is notorious for the disappearance and murder of 3 girls, the killer caught and in prison.The sheep had made their way onto the hillside below, still pulling at the low bushes, only glancing up every now and then, as they always do. Notoriously renowned for it's sinister haunted history, Strangefields Farm was used by a Jackson Temples, who lured young women there to model for disturbing works of art. It has taken me long enough but this is the first Wesley Peterson novel I have read, brought to it by the very good Albert Lincoln series. As always, the Devon countryside and the town of Tradmouth were both definite highlights of the novel and it was nice to feel that, at last, the long-running Wesley/Rachel storyline may finally have been resolved. I’d caught up with my dogs by now, neither as restless as before, both exploring the small grove of trees.

Dead Man's Lane is the twenty-third instalment of this superb police procedural series featuring DI Wesley Peterson and based in the stunning Devon countryside. There are a lot of characters, but there is a good reason for this, and murder mysteries do need a good choice of potential suspects and victims! I trailed behind as the dogs bounded ahead, looking over at the field of sheep between the trees, and where it then slopes down into a valley.

It was previously the site of brutal murders of attractive females who all modelled for the artist who lived there and was convicted of the young women’s murders. Strangefields Farm has been notorious for its sinister history ever since artist Jackson Temples lured young women there to model for disturbing works of art.

Police suspect it belongs to one of Temples' victims and, when a local florist is found murdered in an echo of Temples' crimes, DI Wesley Peterson fears a copy-cat killer could be at large.However one of the young victims was never found and Jackson Temples has throughout his imprisonment always refused to confess his guilt.