The Corfe Castle Murders (Dorset Crime Book 1)

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Local author Roger Evans re-tells some of these gripping and ghostly stories, beginning with Martha Brown, who took an axe to her philandering and drunken husband John, Her public execution was witnessed by Thomas Hardy, the famous Dorset author who could never get the sight out of his head of her swinging back and forth in misty rain. It is evident that Hill, a tailor and a possible suitor of the servant Agnes Beard, did not carry out the crime alone. They claimed that Starr had discussed Mrs Green’s money with them and how one might enter the house to take it, “and as the sayd Starr related the worde to her husband soe it came to passe “.

The Ghost Village Murders is the gripping final instalment to the Dorset Crime series, essential reading for fans of LJ Ross, Joy Ellis and JM Dalgleish. The Village series is a post-apocalyptic psychological thriller trilogy focusing on a family whose past catches up with them. It is hard to believe that behind Dorset's idyllic exterior of rolling hills, quiet country lanes and pretty villages, there lies a history of murders and unexplained happenings. In July 2000, 74-year-old grandmother Beatrice Wilson was stabbed at least 10 times as she lay defenceless on her bed in sheltered accommodation at Millfield, Creekmoor.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Even more surprising is that the body turns out to be that of a criminal who Zoe Finch put away for child grooming and other offences. Altogether there are 20 tales ranging from the Bronze Age warrior dressed in furs and riding bareback who haunts Cranborne Chase to the discovery of a mass grave of mutilated bodies near the Dorchester to Weymouth relief road in 2007. BENJAMIN RUMNEY: The body of Benjamin Rumney was found in a wardrobe in his Gillingham flat following a fire there in February 1996.

They are really easy reads with interesting characters and fantastic storylines with all the usual twists and turns that make a good crime novel. The entire country thrilled to the scandalous cases of Alma Rattenbury and Charlotte Bryant who, in the 1930s, found living with their husbands so difficult that both found a terminal solution to the problem. Starting off with the escape of a prisoner from Portland prison, who is then subsequently ambushed and murdered.A quiet stroll with her daughter turns into a torrid murder investigation as a body is found at an archaeological dig.

In 1610, both Gowin Spencer’s wife Elioner and daughter Gerrard laid the blame with Spencer (seemingly deceased by this time), Robert Hill and a third man, Richard Parmitter of Milton Abbas.To answer a question as vital as the number of coffee cups consumed while reading, there are exactly 7 books in the Dorset Crime series. The snippets of information about local places brought back memories - eg climbing up the mound on which Corfe Castle stands, thinking about the French soldiers who were locked into the dungeons. Having been seriously injured by a bomb in Birmingham, DCI Lesuses Clarke had the choice of retiring or moving to a quieter patch. It doesn’t matter too much though, if you want to read Deadly Origins first or at any point in the series, it won’t spoil the other books.

The Corfe Castle Murders” opens to the murder of Archie Weatherton, an archeologuist found killed in a tent while out at work. The Monument Murders is the fourth instalment in the bestselling Dorset Crime series, essential reading for everyone who loves Dorset… and gripping crime novels. As ever, police have urged anyone with information about any of the cases to contact them on 01202 222222 or the free and anonymous Crimestoppers line on 0800 555 111.A recent Freedom of Information request revealed the killers of 1,143 people across the UK have yet to be found. The Division Bell trilogy consists of three political thrillers taking place in an imagined dystopian near future. A newborn baby girl found washed up in a bag on Weymouth beach, in 1981, died from compression of the neck, although she was judged to have been healthy when born. Fans of the series might find it intriguing to delve into other works by {author name} to see how their writing has evolved or how different themes are explored across their body of work.