A Dreadful Murder: and other criminally compulsive tales

A Dreadful Murder: and other criminally compulsive tales

Minette Walters


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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.


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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.



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Minette Walters

Minette Walters (born 26 September 1949) is a British mystery writer. After studying at Trevelyan College, University of Durham, she began writing in 1987 with The Ice House, which was published in...


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