Literature.
The books that have whetted my interest lately…
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
Non-fiction: In 1860, three-year-old Saville Kent was found murdered in the outdoor privy of his family's country estate. Local police scrambled for clues, but to no avail. Scotland Yard Det.-Insp. Jonathan Jack Whicher was called in and immediately suspected the unthinkable: someone in the Kent family killed Saville.
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Fiction-Thriller/Mystery: A serial killer of children is on the loose, and the Stalinist State cannot admit it.
Fiction-Mystery: The Anatomy of Deception by Lawrence Goldstone
Near the turn of the 19th century, a young doctor faces a dilemma: should he finger a killer, or should he advance the cause of medicine, potentially saving thousands of future patients? This tale hangs on Dr. Carroll's dilemma.
Fiction-Thriller/Mystery: The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
A tale set in Victorian London introduces the characters of stage magician and detective Edward Moon and his silent sidekick, whose fiendish plot to re-create the apocalyptic prophecies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge threaten the British Empire.
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
Non-fiction: In 1860, three-year-old Saville Kent was found murdered in the outdoor privy of his family's country estate. Local police scrambled for clues, but to no avail. Scotland Yard Det.-Insp. Jonathan Jack Whicher was called in and immediately suspected the unthinkable: someone in the Kent family killed Saville.
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Fiction-Thriller/Mystery: A serial killer of children is on the loose, and the Stalinist State cannot admit it.
Fiction-Mystery: The Anatomy of Deception by Lawrence Goldstone
Near the turn of the 19th century, a young doctor faces a dilemma: should he finger a killer, or should he advance the cause of medicine, potentially saving thousands of future patients? This tale hangs on Dr. Carroll's dilemma.
Fiction-Thriller/Mystery: The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
A tale set in Victorian London introduces the characters of stage magician and detective Edward Moon and his silent sidekick, whose fiendish plot to re-create the apocalyptic prophecies of Samuel Taylor Coleridge threaten the British Empire.