Books by Kate Summerscale

Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017The gripping, fascinating account of a shocking murder case that sent late Victorian Britain into a frenzy, by the number one bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher'Her research is needle-sharp and her period detail richly atmospheric, but what is most heartening about this truly remarkable book is the story of real-life redemption that it brings to light' John Carey, Sunday TimesEarly in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow brick terraced house in east London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, leaving the boys and their mother at home for the summer. Over the next ten days Robert and Nattie spent extravagantly, pawning family valuables to fund trips to the theatre and the seaside. During this time nobody saw or heard from their mother, though the boys told neighbours she was visiting relatives. As the sun beat down on the Coombes house, an awful smell began to emanate from the building. When the police were finally called to investigate, what they found in one of the bedrooms sent the press into a frenzy of horror and alarm, and Robert and Nattie were swept up in a criminal trial that echoed the outrageous plots of the 'penny dreadful' novels that Robert loved to read. In The Wicked Boy, Kate Summerscale has uncovered a fascinating true story of murder and morality - it is not just a meticulous examination of a shocking Victorian case, but also a compelling account of its aftermath, and of man's capacity to overcome the past.

From the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher comes a brand new true story of Victorian scandal

The extraordinary stroy of 'Joe' Carstairs, the fastest woman on waterThe Sunday Times bestseller

The fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case - and the notorious detective who solved it

Mr Whichers Mistanker – eller Mordet i Road Hill House: En berømt victoriansk whodunit, som inspirerede en hel genre: mordmysteriet.Året er 1860. Et barn bliver myrdet på et landsted i Vestengland, og det lokale politi står på bar bund. Fra Scotland Yard i London bliver Jack Whicher sendt ud for at løse gåden.En autentisk krimi fra Scotland Yards første år; et klassisk mordmysterium: Tolv personer i et lukket hus: én er offeret, hvem er morderen? Det er historien om et mord der rystede hele England og blev inspiration til detektivromangenren.PRESSEN SKREV"En fremragende bog, som er lige spændende som tidsbillede, dokumentar og menneskeskildring."- 5, stjerne, Berlingske Tidende"Mr Whichers mistanker er en fascinerende bog, der både er en veldokumenteret socialhistorie, en perspektivrig litteraturhistorie og en inciterende krimi." - 5 stjerner, Jyllands-Posten"Terrific" – Ian Rankin"Absolutely riveting" – Sarah Waters"A classic" – John le CarréOM FORFATTERENKate Summerscale har vundet flere priser for sine biografiske værker. Hun har skrevet bestselleren The Queen of Whale Cay, som vandt the Somerset Maugham Award og blev nomineret til the Whitbread Biography Award, og Mr Whichers Mistanker, som vandt the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Hun har været dommer i bl.a. Booker Prize-komiteen og har arbejdet for de engelske aviser The Independent og The Observer. Hun bor i London.