Ellis

Kate Ellis
Wesley Peterson series
The Merchant's House
The Armada Boy
An Unhallowed Grave
The Funeral Boat
The Bone Garden
A Painted Doom
The Skeleton Room
The Plague Maiden
A Cursed Inheritance
The Marriage Hearse
The Shining Skull
The Blood Pit
A Perfect Death
The Flesh Tailor
The Jackal Man
The Cadaver Game
The Shadow Collector
The Shroud Maker
The Death Season
The House of Eyes
The Mermaid's Scream

These are lovely little light mysteries. They could be classified as police procedurals, but they don't quite fit the genre. The series is really about a friendship that started at university in an archaeology class: one man went on to be a journeyman archaeologist for hire, the other joined the police. In each book, they solve parallel mysteries. Wesley, the policeman, works in the here-and-now; his friend Neil Watson digs up his bodies and relies on much older evidence. The older stories help the reader to solve the modern mysteries. In some of the books, these parallel stories are a little contrived. However, over the course of the series, the lives of the two main characters unfold and that makes up for any gaps in the puzzles.