A devastating account of the depraved crimes of the UK's most prolific serial killer, Rose West, and an analysis of the psychology that drives someone to abuse and murder.
A devastating account of the depraved crimes of the UK's most prolific serial killer, Rose West, and an analysis of the psychology that drives someone to abuse and murder.
Rose West was, on the face of it, a typical mother living with her husband, Fred, and their children in a three-storeyed terraced house in Gloucester. But behind the building's modest facade, 25 Cromwell Street was the scene of truly terrible crimes, an authentic House of Horror.
Inside the family home, the many young female victims lured there and the couple's own children were subjected to horrific sexual violence and torture. It would take decades before the Wests' dark secrets were finally discovered, but do we know the full story of their depravity yet?
Nine bodies were dug up from beneath their home, but how many victims were buried elsewhere?
Fred confessed - as a 'gift' to Rose - to having murdered on his own, but did he truly act alone?
Or was Rose, in fact, the driving force in their folie deux, their shared psychosis?
True crime writers Farber and Daniel get to the bottom of these questions and more, including how the killer couple's psychology and relationship changed over time.
Tanya Farber has worked as a journalist for two decades and specializes in narrative non-fiction. She has won four international journalism awards and many others in her home country of South Africa. She is author of two non-fiction books, Alf Kumalo: Through My Lens, and Blood On Her Hands - South Africa's Most Notorious Female Killers. She has a masters degree in journalism, and is currently working on her first fiction novel.
Jeremy Daniel is an author, scriptwriter, digital marketing specialist and musician. He isthe author of nine sports biographies for Jonathan Ball Publishers, including SiyaKolisi: Against All Odds which spent months on the bestseller list in SouthAfrica in 2020, and he has written for television, stage and print media forover two decades.
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