Reviewed by Kyuhyun
A Dreadful Murder is based on a real murder which took place in Kent in the early nineteen hundreds and the author has written an imaginative reconstruction of it.
In August, 1908, Caroline Luard was shot in Kent, in broad daylight on a large estate. Since there are few clues, her husband very quickly becomes a suspect. Her husband was the last person to see her alive and the person who discovered her body. He is a friend of the Chief Constable who quite rightly calls in Scotland Yard to investigate. It is a story of animosity against Caroline’s husband and anonymous letters falling thick as leaves in Vallombrosa.
It is an intriguing mystery and it is up to the reader to make up their own minds about who did it. If you want a quick read, which is part fiction and part non-fiction, then give this a try.
