Bøger af Kate Summerscale

The UK's top-selling true crime writer and author of the #1 bestseller, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, takes on the notorious 1950s murders at 10 Rillington Place'Once more, Kate Summerscale shatters our preconceptions of a classic crime' Val McDermidLondon, 1953. Police discover the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they find another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. But they have already investigated a double murder at 10 Rillington Place, three years ago, and the killer was hanged. Did they get the wrong man?A nationwide manhunt is launched for the tenant of the ground-floor flat, a softly spoken former policeman named Reg Christie. Star reporter Harry Procter chases after the scoop. Celebrated crime writer Fryn Tennyson Jesse begs to be assigned to the case. The story becomes an instant sensation, and with the relentless rise of the tabloid press the public watches on like never before. Who is Christie? Why did he choose to kill women, and to keep their bodies near him? As Harry and Fryn start to learn the full horror of what went on at Rillington Place, they realise that Christie might also have engineered a terrible miscarriage of justice in plain sight. In this riveting true story, Kate Summerscale mines the archives to uncover the lives of Christie's victims, the tabloid frenzy that their deaths inspired, and the truth about what happened inside the house. What she finds sheds fascinating light on the origins of our fixation with true crime, and suggests a new solution to one of the most notorious cases of the century.

A stage adaptation of Kate Summerscale's vivid and gripping bestselling non-fiction thriller, premiered at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, in May 2023.

"The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals)."--

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

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

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.

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

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.