A Dreadful Murder
And Other Criminally Compulsive Tales
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4.5 • 15 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Three victims, three unsolvable murders, and three killers walk free . Minette Walters, crime writing's Queen of Mystery, imagines what happened and why.
Three victims, three unsolvable murders, and three killers walk free.
A Dreadful Murder Kent, August 1908. Caroline Luard is shot dead in broad daylight in the grounds of a large country estate. With few clues available, her husband soon becomes the suspect.But is he guilty?
Tinder Box In a small Hampshire village, Irish labourer Patrick O'Riordan has been arrested for the brutal murder of elderly Lavinia Fanshaw and her live-in nurse, Dorothy Jenkins. What lies lurk beneath the surface of their world?
Chickenfeed Under financial and emotional stress, Norman Thorne finds himself in a hopeless situation - but does he resort to murder to escape his fiancee's clutches?
Together for the first time, these three page-turning stories are each based on true unsolved murders. And with the Queen of Crime, Minette Walters, on the case, killers beware.
Customer Reviews
Fine reading
Although these short stories were previously written, they sparkle with Walter's inimitable style. You can't help but get sucked into the stories and experience almost by proxy the horrors of the murders in their different settings and periods.