Jessica Roberts
Reviewer Jessica Roberts is a book reviewer for a local newspaper and has reviewed for a national women's magazine too. She has had various articles published in magazines and has now completed her novel. Jessica currently lives in West Yorkshire and enjoys walking in the dales and woodlands as part of her hobby as well as, of course, reviewing books. To read more of Jessica's reviews CLICK HERE
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Author: Norman Adams
Publisher: Black and White publishing
ISBN: 978184502208-2
Blood & Granite is a chilling book packed with the most grizzly and notorious homicides to have been committed in Aberdeen over the last hundred years. Even if you weren’t alive during those horrific times this book will certainly show you what it was like.
Chronicled inside are 24 bone-chilling tales of murder and mystery, each chapter more horrific then the last.
Last Woman to Hang in Aberdeen was a gruesome and fascinating story. Kate Humphrey had murdered her sleeping husband by pouring a deadly concoction of sulphuric acid down his gullet. She was sentenced to death and truly felt the finality of the hangman’s noose on Friday 8th of October, 1830.
Screams of Torry tells of how a forearm washes up along the Aberdeen docks, how ghastly is that?! A poor elderly gentleman realizes how the “dark oily” docks can act as a veil, concealing grim treasures beneath its watery depth. Read this and I can guarantee the next time you pass any docks, you’ll be checking the waters for your own gruesome discovery!
Toward the middle of this book you’ll find a section with photographs - some never before published. The one of cold-blooded murderer Jeannie Donald laughing back at you from the page certainly puts you on edge. It makes your skin crawl. She ruthlessly killed eight-year-old Helen Priestly but would she get sentenced to death for her horrific crime?
What does a mistaken identity have to do with the killing of thirty-two-year-old scientist Dr Brenda Page? A discovery in the bedroom of No. 13 forces widow Elizabeth Gordon to move away - unable to shift the lasting impression from her mind. Read this for a chill or two!
Most of the tales told inside this book are quite short but very well written and put together. Maybe the author could have gone into some of the incidents a little more thoroughly since he was once a reporter. However this might be due to him not being as involved in some of these murders and so some stories remain quite brief. That is not to say it isn’t good and certainly will cure your thirst for blood if you have a liking for true-life crime books.
A book that re-opens Aberdeen’s horrifying past and lays it bare for the reader.
Read this for a scare but leave the lights on.
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Jessica Roberts
Reviewer Jessica Roberts is a book reviewer for a local newspaper and has reviewed for a national women's magazine too. She has had various articles published in magazines and has now completed her novel. Jessica currently lives in West Yorkshire and enjoys walking in the dales and woodlands as part of her hobby as well as, of course, reviewing books. To read more of Jessica's reviews CLICK HERE
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