The Outcast Dead: (Ruth Galloway 6)

Travel Guide

The Norfolk landscape – its castle and thoughts of what might be buried underneath or near its foundations whether part of this world or part of the next is what creates the spooky and chilling atmosphere of The Outcast Dead.

Norwich Castle and the murderous past of the city

Norwich Castle is a medieval royal fortification in the city and it’s an imposing place to be overlooking everything around it. To think that a Victorian murderess may have done such evil here mixes the mysteries of the past and the grisly crime with modern day investigation techniques. Nearby the streets such as Heigham street and St Peter Mancroft Church’s all have links to the murderous past of the city

Mother Hook – the eerie connotations and the very mention of the name conjures up images you’d rather not see -either for real or in your mind’s eye. Mother Hook is fictional but is said to have been a Victorian child murderer and the hideous idea that a woman especially would have been found guilty of such crimes helps evoke a sense of disturbing secrets and of the fate of poor abandoned children in the 1800s. Mother Hook would take them in and sell them to a resurrectionist after murdering them in the most brutal way first.

There is a television show being filmed in the present day along the lines of ‘Women Who Kill’ and those connected to the show investigate Mother Hook. But with the modern day and the historical mysteries weaving together, Norfolk weaves its witchery, evil spell.