With intriguing cases from the 18th and 19th Centuries and the Edwardian period, Killers’ Cavalcade is Grahame Farrell’s latest collection of historical true-murders. Mixing, as always, a number of less-well-known cases with some more infamous ones, this very readable collection will appeal to any reader fascinated both by murder and by the past. In a book that embeds each case firmly in its social and historical context, we meet characters from all classes of society who all had one deadly trait in common – the willingness to murder.
Many true crime books carry the same old names and cases but not this one. Only one of the cases had I read about before making a very pleasant surprise. Well written, interesting from page one and difficult to put down this book is a must for anyone interested in cases of murder from a century and more ago.