Book review: The Apprentice of Split Crow Lane: The Story of the Carr’s Hill Murder

ONE cannot help but feel that Jane Housham is a fan of Kate Summerscale’s best selling The Suspicions of Mr Wicher, in which Summerscale takes a mid-Victorian murder and attempts to create a fictionalised murder mystery story.

Sat, 01 Apr, 2017 - 01:00

Review: Josephine Fenton

Jane Housham

Riverrun, €28; ebook, €9.10

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