Warwickshire has seen its fair share of murder straight down the hundreds of years. This most recent collection explores notorious offences from your nineteenth and early twentieth generations, using contemporary papers; trial transcripts and newspaper accounts to examine instances that gripped both the county and the nation.

Warwickshire Murders is a robust and interesting reappraisal of a few of the most brutal and gruesome killings in the country’s history. Among the tales included is the case of Edwin Adam Moore, about The Warwickshire Murders who arranged fire to his murder after an argument over supper at Leamington Spa in 1907, the Coventry bombing in 1939, for which two men were executed in Feb 1940, as well as the case of Thomas Ball, who was poisoned by his wife in 1848.

She was later tried and executed in Coventry and was the last woman to be executed in public areas. From Warwick to Rugby, Coventry to Nuneaton and Stratford to Leamington Health spa, Warwickshire Murders can be a unique re-examination from the darker aspect of the county’s past and is sure to be considered a must-listen for accurate crime enthusiasts almost everywhere.