HELP I need some new books - Recommendations?

[Graham]

Hi Louisa,

The Dominici Affair by Jean LaBorde. I've lost count of the times I've read this gripping story. A very British family were murdered whilst on holiday in France in 1952.

Quite agree! Without giving the game away to anyone who doesn't know about this case but would like to find out more, the Drummonds were not the only Brits murdered on the Continent, post-war, and for long there has been a theory that the killings were linked. As far as I'm aware, no-one was ever brought to book for these murders.

A great read and a great mystery!

One of my own absolute favourite unsolved crimes is the 1983 murder of wealthy lawyer Janice Weston, but so far as I'm aware no-one has yet published a full-length account of it - which kind of surprises me.

Graham

[louisa]

Hi,

Like a lot of people here, I have literally thousands of books about true crime. I prefer real books to e-books.

I have now run out of good reads.

If I do a run down of my preferences perhaps somebody can help me find some murders that I don't already have in my collection.

I would prefer Victorian era or onwards, but I'm open to any good read.

Unsolved crimes are okay because I quite enjoy the whodunnit element.

I'm sorry to say that I don't really want any more Jack the Ripper books in my collection.

Anything along the lines of the Julia Wallace murder is the kind of thing that I am looking for.

If anyone else enjoys these type of whodunnit true murder mysteries then I can recommend a few to them.....my personal favourites:

The Dominici Affair by Jean LaBorde. I've lost count of the times I've read this gripping story. A very British family were murdered whilst on holiday in France in 1952.

The Riddle of Birdhurst Rise by Richard Whittington-Egan. Victorian genteel society in leafy Croydon was shocked by these murders, all victims in the same family. The poisoner is obvious (imo) but this person gets away with killing three people, maybe more? I've also read this one a lot of times. Gripping stuff!