Best Ellis Peters Books

Ancient door knocker carries a deadly curse from abbey to church, leaving two bodies in its wake. Peters weaves folklore and forensics in this atmospheric mystery about legends that refuse to die.

Wealthy newcomer Arthur Rainbow's aggressive campaign to modernize the sleepy village of Middlehope creates so much resentment that murder becomes the community's final solution.

After a car accident, opera singer Maggie Tressider becomes haunted by the inexplicable conviction that she's killed someone, driving her to uncover repressed memories and dark secrets.

A weekend folk music course at a remote English mansion becomes the perfect cover for settling old scores when one singer's haunting performance contains a message meant for murder.

Opening Jan Treverra's centuries-old tomb should reveal devoted husband and wife together, but scholars find a mystery that shatters their romantic legend.

A young woman's search for her vanished great-uncle leads to romance and danger among the ruins of a Roman settlement.

Peters creates devastating personal stakes when Inspector Felse arrests teenager Kitty Norris for murder. His son Dominic's infatuation with the accused transforms investigation into dangerous family opposition.

When a former Nazi is murdered in a quiet English village, the local war hero becomes the prime suspect—but his students know better in this post-WWII mystery debut.

What seemed like accidental death on a Czechoslovakian mountain becomes murder when Tossa receives a cryptic note about her stepfather Herbert. Peters transforms a European holiday into a deadly investigation among foreign landscapes and suspicious locals.