Walking by Night

Late one foggy night in Eborby, a young woman claims to having seen a body.  A search doesn’t turn up a body.  She also reports having seen a nun-like figure in the fog.  The following morning a woman is reported missing.  DI Joe Plantagenet is inclined to believe the young woman.  But, where is the body, and what is the connection to the play in which the missing woman was involved in?

Later that same morning the body of the actress is found, in what Joe thinks is the position of a penitent.  The autopsy reveals that the victim was about three months pregnant.  Could the father be the killer? Or was it a scorned wife?

Not long after this the lead male actor in the play the first victim participated in, is found strangled in his dressing room.  The theatre is at the centre of both crimes.  Are there going to be more deaths?

Author Kate Ellis has the answers in the following pages, and the reader will be surprised at who the killer is.  Ellis throws up a few suspects, but not the real one.  This was a very good read.  Sadly, Ellis has not added to the series since this book was published in 2015.