Happy Like Murderers
Title | Happy Like Murderers PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon Burn |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 571 |
Release | 2011-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0571265065 |
An account of two people - Fred and Rose West - who lived together, raised (and killed) children, provided sexual services for anyone interested, and pretended to provide social services for single women. Investigated and told by one of the greatest journalists and writers of the last twenty years, this is the most powerful and upsetting true crime book you will ever read.
Happy Like Murderers
Title | Happy Like Murderers PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon Burn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 2019-10-03 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780571353651 |
In this controversial and seminal work of reportage, Gordon Burn reveals the strange inner dynamic of Fred and Rosemary West's relationship. Based on meticulous research, this dark history is told in a powerful, compelling narrative. With a new introduction by Benjamin Myers.
Happy Like Murderers
Title | Happy Like Murderers PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon Burn |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Murderers |
ISBN | 9780571279135 |
Gordon Burn's Happy Like Murderers is a disturbing catalogue of the manner in which Frederick and Rosemary West raped, tortured and killed. It spares none of the utterly sordid details.
Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son
Title | Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon Burn |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 477 |
Release | 2011-06-16 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 0571265049 |
It seemed the case of the notorious Yorkshire Ripper was finally closed when Peter Sutcliffe was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981. But in the early 1980s Gordon Burn spent three years living in Sutcliffe's home town of Bingley, researching his life. A modern classic, Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son offers one of the most penetrating and provocative insights into the mind of a murderer ever written. 'A book which will, with some justice, be compared to In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song. It's as if Thomas Hardy were also present at the writing of this account of the Yorkshire Ripper.' Norman Mailer
Real Murders
Title | Real Murders PDF eBook |
Author | Charlaine Harris |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2007-12-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101206543 |
Though a small town at heart, Lawrenceton, Georgia, has its dark side-and crime buffs. One of whom is librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden, a member of the Real Murders Club, which meets once a month to analyze famous cases. It's a harmless pastime-until the night she finds a member killed in a manner that eerily resembles the crime the club was about to discuss. And as other brutal "copycat" killings follow, Roe will have to uncover the person behind the terrifying game, one that casts all the members of Real Murders, herself included, as prime suspects-or potential victims.
Born Yesterday
Title | Born Yesterday PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon Burn |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2011-06-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0571266983 |
Summer 2007 was an extraordinarily rich time for news. Floods. Foot and mouth. The disappearances of Tony Blair and Madeleine McCann. The arrival of Gordon Brown. Terror attacks in Glasgow. And Gordon Burn, artist, journalist and true-crime author, has taken the events from this bleak summer and turned them into an utterly unique novel about the way news is made, and how the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. A daring and thrilling novel from one of the most astute observers of celebrity and tragedy, that is sure to make the headlines itself.
Beyond Belief
Title | Beyond Belief PDF eBook |
Author | Emlyn Williams |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan Adult MM |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1992-06-01 |
Genre | Murder |
ISBN | 9780330020886 |
This is a look at Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, the Moors Murderers. The text covers the murders, their perpetrators and the detection that led to Brady and Hindley's arrest.