The Marriage Hearse

A young woman is found strangled and naked, hours before her wedding. DI Wesley Peterson discovers that Kirsten Harbourn was being pursued by an obsessed stalker and had dark secrets her doting fiancé knew nothing about.But Kirsten's wasn't the only wedding planned to take place that day in South Devon. A couple made their wedding vows at Morbary registry office and a few days later the groom is found dead in a seaside hotel.As Wesley examines the links between cases, the skeleton of a young bride is found in a field that once belonged to the family of an Elizabethan playwright. Ralph Strong's play, 'The Fair Wife of Padua', is soon to be performed for the first time in four hundred years.Is the bloodthirsty drama a confession to the historic murder? And can it reveal anything about the recent killings Wesley must solve?