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The jackal man / Kate Ellis.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
AF ELLI	Adult Fiction		Bankstown .	. Available .

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ISBN	9780749953522 (hbk.)
Name	Ellis, Kate, 1953-
Title	The jackal man / Kate Ellis.
Published	London : Piatkus, 2011
Description	393 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary	When a teenage girl is strangled and left for dead on a lonely country lane, by an attacker she describes has having the head of a dog, the police are baffled. But when the body of another young woman is found mutilated and wrapped in a white linen sheet, DI Wesley Peterson suspects that the killer is performing an ancient ritual linked to Anubis, the jackal-headed Egyptian god of death and mummification. Meanwhile, archaeologist Neil Watson has been called to Varley Castle to catalogue the collection of Edwardian amateur Egyptologist, Sir Frederick Varley. However, as his research progresses, Neil discovers that Wesley's strange murder case bears sinister similarities to four murders that took place near Varley Castle in 1903 ? murders said to have been committed by Sir Frederick's son. As the Jackal Man's identity remains a frustrating enigma, it seems that the killer has yet another victim in mind. A victim close to Wesley Peterson himself ...
Genre	Detective and mystery fiction
Series	Wesley Peterson series 15
Series	Wesley Peterson series 15
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Detective and mystery fiction . See Also: Adventure stories . Ghost stories . Horror tales . Broader Subject References: Fiction . Authors: Ellis, Kate, 1953- . Series: Wesley Peterson series .