The Murders At White House Farm – Carol Ann Lee (2015) – A Murder They Wrote...
Warning: This book gave me nightmares. I don’t read a lot of true crime as I tend to get too involved in what is being unfolded and there’s a thin line between being interested as a reader and feeling...
View ArticleThe Author Strikes Back – Carol Ann Lee Interview
A Murder They Wrote Special Today is the publication day for “The Murders At White House Farm”. I originally reviewed this book last month thanks to a preview copy from Netgalley. I am absolutely...
View ArticleThe Wicked Boy – Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury 2016) – A Murder They Wrote Review
Subtitled “The Mystery of A Victorian Child Murderer” this is the first Kate Summerscale I have read since “Suspicions of Mr Whicher”. I really enjoyed her examination of detective work in its...
View ArticleChickenfeed – Minette Walters (2006) – A Murder They Wrote Review
One of the continuing aims of World Book Day/Night is to get reluctant readers immersed into the world of books. Back in 2006 a set of “Quick Reads” were published in an initiative between publishing...
View ArticleThe Five- Hallie Rubenhold (2019) – A Real Life Review
I like this author. A previous work of hers “The Covent Garden Ladies” (2006) a study of Victorian prostitution ended up in my Top 5 Books Of The Year when I read it in 2011. I very much applaud...
View ArticleThe Library Book – Susan Orlean (2019) – A Real-Life Review
Here’s a non-fiction work I highlighted as one of the books I wanted to read in 2019 in January’s “Looking Back, Looking Forward” post. Susan Orleans is a writer for New Yorker magazine and has now...
View ArticleThe Language Of Birds – Jill Dawson (2019) – A Murder They Wrote Review
This is not exactly a crime novel, although a murder is very much at its centre and it focuses on a case most readers would have some sense of familiarity with, that of children’s nanny Sandra Rivett...
View ArticleI’ll Be Gone In The Dark -Michelle McNamara (2018) – A Murder They Wrote Review
I have an uneasy relationship with the true crime genre. I’ve mentioned this before and I think it all boils down to one book which so disturbed me – the account of Muswell Hill killer Dennis Nilsen...
View ArticleMemorial Drive – Natasha Trethewey (Harper Collins 2020) – A Real Life Review
Subtitled “A Daughter’s Memoir” this is an account which needed to be shared by ex US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning Natasha Trethewey. In 1985, when Natasha was nineteen her mother, Gwen...
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