Kate Summerscale
Birth date: January 01, 1965
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Summerscale's book about a young boy who murdered his mother is pretty good, though it does drag at the end. The book is the best in the beginning where Summerscale is focusing on society as well as crime and punishment. When it shifts from the crime, it loses some of the vim. Still it is a go...
On a summer's morning in 1860, the Kent family awakes in their elegant Wiltshire home to a terrible discovery; their youngest son has been brutally murdered. When celebrated detective Jack Whicher is summoned from Scotland Yard he faces the unenviable task of identifying the killer - when the grievi...
Interesting story but I wasn't caught by the storytelling.Starts in the Victorian era, when a boy of 13, Robert Coombes and his 12 year old brother Nattie have 10 days of freedom until the smell from their house causes someone to investigate only to find that their mother is dead, their father is of...
I was intrigued by the blurb. Read the preview on Scribd, liked it enough to pay a credit for it, whizzed through the first third - very interesting! Ohhhh, was it the governess? The parents? The step-siblings? An outside party with a grudge against the unlikable master of the house?! - and then slo...
#THEWICKEDBOY AVAILABLE 7/12/16 4 STARS I had no idea that this was a true crime story until I started reading it. I can't believe how gruesome this murder was. However, it's the fact that they just left her laying there that was the worse and they were just 12 and 13 years old. Robert was defini...
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