Serpent's Point: Book 26 in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series

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and, once again, an amazing plot and the connections made between archaeology and the present time and crime are enthrauling. Susan was quite attractive and empathetic and, at one point, had an admirer who she thought of as a stalker.

In this case, Wesley, Gerry, and the team are trying to solve the murder of a young woman who was doing a bit of detective work of her own, trying to find the man who married and murdered one young woman, then married another (the woman's friend) who mysteriously disappeared. However, they have found some coins in the field and when Wesley sees them, he immediately contacts his university friend Neil Watson, with whom he had studied archaeology at Exeter university. As in every book of this series, there's a parallel story involving Wesley's archaeologist friend Neil Watson, who's excavating a possible Roman site near the scene of Susan's murder. Then we move forward five years to the discovery of the dead body of a woman probably in her early thirties lying on a costal path.When a woman is found strangled on a coastal path in South Devon, the police suspect at first that she's the random victim of a stranger. The number of potential suspects and the work Gerry, Wesley and the rest of the team have to put into whittle them down keeps you guessing to the end. There’s two plots that run alongside one another, one of the main investigation but another of a historical Roman archeological dig that’s occurring, which at first I didn’t like.

I wouldn't say this story gripped and intrigued me as much as some of the others but still a solid, very readable instalment.Neil not only gets to dig around in the attic for old documents, but his work in the field also garners the attention of nighthawks, and that leads to a stay with Wesley and Wesley's wife, Pam, who gave me the biggest laugh in the book. But as they investigate Susan Brown's life, they discover she was investigating the disappearance and murder of two other women. Two young girls with metal detectors were looking for treasure in a nearby field but wearing headphones and concentrating on their metal detecting they were unable to offer any useful information.