Andy Charman

Crow Court was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2021 and shortlisted for the CWA Daggers Historical Award 2022. Spring, 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...