AN award-winning author is set to take readers back to Victorian Wrexham and Chester for his latest mystery.

Death Along The Dee is the 14th in David Ebsworth's series of bestselling historical thrillers. They include his popular Yale Trilogy, with many scenes also set in Wrexham in the 17th and early 18th centuries.

In this new release - a sequel to his 2023 Blood Among The Threads - Alfred and Ettie Palmer are back to solve yet another series of crimes. A body deliberately drowned but left abandoned on the banks of the River Dee. A mysterious tattoo.

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Then two further murders, each more bizarre than the last - killings which draw them ever further into a circle of unlikely allies, eccentric suspects, old enemies, and the murky world of Fenian plots and bombings.

Born in Liverpool, David Ebsworth (the pen name of writer Dave McCall), has lived in Wrexham since 1981. Formerly a union organiser, he took up writing after he retired in 2009 and now writes every day without fail. Though he still manages to find time for a regular morning swim. You can find him writing, most mornings, in one of Wrexham's independent coffee shops.

• Death Along The Dee by David Ebsworth is due to be published on November 1, 2024 and the first launch event takes place at Wrexham Library, 6.30pm, that same evening.