Crow Court

LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGERS HISTORICAL AWARD 2022Spring, 1840. In the Dorset market town of Wimborne Minster, a young choirboy drowns himself. Soon ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGERS HISTORICAL AWARD 2022Spring, 1840. In the Dorset market town of Wimborne Minster, a young choirboy drowns himself. Soon after, the choirmaster—a belligerent man with a vicious reputation—is found murdered, in a discovery tainted as much by relief as it is by suspicion. The gaze of the magistrates falls on four local men, whose decisions will reverberate through the community for years to come. So begins the chronicle of Crow Court, unravelling over fourteen delicately interwoven episodes, the town of Wimborne their ba