My Review (5 stars out of 5) Robin Odell has produced a fascinating and very readable book that lifts the lid on a case which resulted in the first solicitor in England to be hanged for murder. Hay on Wye solicitor Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong became known as the Hay Poisoner following an investigation into…
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‘How to Kill a Witch’ by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi
My Review (5 stars out of 5) (Audiobook) In Scotland in the 1500s, witch hunts ripped through the country for over 150 years. More than 4,000 women were accused, many of whom were executed by strangulation and burning. Campaigners and writers Claire Mitchell, KC, and Zoe Venditozzi, explore what happened and why, revealing the process…
‘A Granite Silence’ Nina Allan
My Review (5 stars out of 5) A Granite Silence explores a real-life murder that happened in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1934, when eight-year-old Helen Priestly was killed by one of her neighbours. During her school dinner break, Helen’s mother sent her to the shop for a loaf of bread. The little girl was never seen…
‘Bob and Shirley’s Guide to Murder’ by Suzy K Quinn
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Bob and Shirley’s Guide to Murder, via Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources Bob and Shirley run a lovely country pub. They also solve murders… A warmly funny, gloriously British cozy crime and murder mystery series that can be read as standalones or part of a series.…
‘The Crooked Medium’s Guide to Murder’ by Stephen Cox
Welcome to my spot on Book Birthday Blitz for The crooked Medium’s Guide to Murder, via Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources Blurb London 1881. Can two crooked women stop a murder? Extravagant medium Mrs Ashton and her lover, blunt working-class Mrs Bradshaw, run a spiritualist scam. Mrs Ashton secretly reads minds. Believing that Mrs Ashton…
‘A Jury of His Peers’ by Jake Needham
My Review (4 stars out of 5) For lawyer Charlie Trust, 1994 begins with a bang when the Northridge Earthquake devastates a massive area of LA. As Charlie and everyone else deal with the aftermath, a well-publicised trial collapses with a hung jury, and Charlie and Sandy find themselves in line for representing one of…
‘Operation Berlin’ by Michael Ridpath
Welcome to my stop on the Blog Tour for Operation Berlin, via Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources. Blurb In a city rebuilding from war, truth can be the most dangerous weapon of all. Berlin, 1930. Historian Archie Laverick, scarred mentally and physically by the Great War, travels to Berlin to research a famed Prussian general.…
‘Sacrilege’ by Keith Moray
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Sacrilege, via Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources. A nun is found dead. A priest is horribly attacked. An evil older than sin is loose in Yorkshire… Marske, 1361. Sir Ralph de Mandeville with his assistants Peter and Merek have recently come from Reeth to hold a…
‘Mindhunter’ by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
My Review (5 stars out of 5) This is the story of how FBI agent John Douglas helped set up the Behavioural Science unit, which also inspired the hit Netflix show of the same name. Spending time interviewing serial killers and teaching profiling skills to other agents and police officers, Douglas himself was the model…
‘The Mysterious Mrs Hood’ by Kim Donovan
My Review (5 stars out of 5) (Audiobook) In the fishing port of Great Yarmouth in September 1900, a young woman known only as Mrs Hood had been staying in a local lodging house. When she was found dead on the beach, strangled with a bootlace, police struggled to learn her identity, and that of…
