Jurassic Coast Justice

by Mark Bridgeman

Paperback

About the author

Mark Bridgeman was born in Swindon, Wiltshire and is now based in Highland Perthshire, Scotland. After a career working in Finance, Marketing and Sports Coaching, he has now turned his passion for writing, crime fiction and non-fiction, history and sport into words. Mark's first book "The River Runs Red" is now available. A history of true crime in Highland Perthshire, the book has proved an immediate success.
Surviving In The Shadows and Blood Beneath Ben Nevis were released in March 2020 to great reviews.
The Lost Village of Lawers followed in September 2020 and became an instant success.
Mark also contributed a series of short stories to the West Highland Museum website and to his own blog.
As featured on the BBC, The Beacon On The Hill was released in December 2020, taking up the story of Christ Church in Swindon, following on from a book originally written by Mark's late father. In May 2021, Mark released The Dark Side of the Dales (a series of true crime stories from the Yorkshire Dales) and Footsteps at Finlarig, the history of Finlarig Castle in Killin. Both books were well reviewed and proved instant successes.
Mark is currently working on two other projects for release in 2022 and has appeared at several book festivals, on ITV, Channel 5, BBC Radio, and the History Channel.

Reviews

[William Leonard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very easy to read book, well formatted, with quick, interesting, though not particularly fascinating stories. Good to hear about some interesting tales from the local area.

[Suzanne Fraser · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have just finished reading Jurassic Coast Justice. Another great collection of stories by Mark. I particularly liked the chilling The Cry From The Grave, the heartbreaking The Angel Makers (I had an interest in that as I have read about the subject in other books and publications) and Storm In A Teacup, which I found amusing. Given the distance Mark would have had to travel, the amount of research in this hook is impressive. I am hoping that his Trial By Jury event is not limited to Scotland. An event for his English readers, based around Jurassic Coast Justice would be well received. I would certainly try to attend myself. Crime and the seaside? Yes please.

[Catherine Whitaker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad, but it didn't especially pull me in either. The stories are very short and disjointed, with a lot of quoted dialogue from trials but not much in the way of details for most of the crimes. A couple of stories stood out as being more interesting than others - The Cry From The Grave and The Jealous Husband were both much more entertaining than the rest of the book. Most of it was short and lacking detail.

Content aside, there were a few mistakes that should have been caught in editing. A couple of typos and a really odd change of font size between chapters.

[Own Timis · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wide variety of short true crime tales from the Jurassic Coast in mostly the 18th and 19th centuries, ranging from theft and murder, to mutiny and U-boat attacks. Really interesting snippets of life as it was. Some of the stories don't have a satisfactory ending as there is no record of who actually committed the crime!

[Suzanne Viney · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting stories, although they were a bit random and disjointed