Roanoke Island Murders

by Joe C. Ellis

Overview

Two unscrupulous antiquity dealers, Hugh Underdonk and Alfred Bacon, hope to get their hands on the Dare Diary, a long lost journal written by Eleanor Dare, one of the original members of Roanoke Island's Lost Colony. Detective Weston Wolf is drawn into this web of deception and murder by a beautiful woman who claims to be a descendant of Eleanor. As the bodies pile up, Wolf must untangle this web to save his own neck.

In the spirit of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Joe C. Ellis has weaved together a fast-paced noir detective novel set on the Outer Banks with a menagerie of unusual characters. This novel launches Book 1 of the Weston Wolf -- Outer Banks Detective Series.

Praise for Ellis's other series--the Outer Banks Murder Series:
"Wow. This guy can write! If you like any of the best selling suspense/mystery writers (Coben, Child, Patterson), give Joe Ellis a try for a refreshing change."Gee Gee Rosell - Island Free Press

"Murder at Whalehead will absorb the reader from its firsttantalizing page to its last satisfying conclusion."Michele Rubin - Writers House, NY"

Joe Ellis weaves engaging characters, suspense, and triumph of spirit together in a great read."Nancy Haddock - Bestselling Novelist

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162733829
Publisher:	Upper Ohio Valley Books
Publication date:	11/04/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	585,048
File size:	493 KB

About the Author

Joe C. Ellis, a big fan of the North Carolina’s Outer Banks, grew up in the Ohio Valley. A native of Martins Ferry, Ohio, he attended West Liberty State College in West Virginia and went on to earn his Master’s Degree in education from Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio. After a thirty-six year career as an art teacher, he retired from the Martins Ferry City School District.
Currently, he is the pastor for the Scotch Ridge Presbyterian Church and the Colerain Presbyterian Church.

His writing career began in 2001 with the publication of his first novel, The Healing Place. In 2007 he began the Outer Banks Murder Series with the publication of Murder at Whalehead (2010), Murder at Hatteras (2011), Murder on the Outer Banks (2012), and the latest installment, Murder at Ocracoke (2017).

Joe credits family vacations on the Outer Banks with the inspiration for these stories. Joe and his wife, Judy, have three children and five grandsons. Although the kids have flown the nest, they get together often and always make it a priority to vacation on the Outer Banks whenever possible. He comments, “It’s a place on the edge of the world, a place of great beauty and sometimes danger—the ideal setting for murder mysteries.”