FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER
WINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, Independent, Tablet and New Statesman
 
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Val McDermid
 
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Sarah Waters
 
In 1953, the bodies of three young women are found by a tenant in the walls of a Notting Hill house.
 
He tells the police that he chanced upon them while trying to put up a shelf for his transistor radio.
 
As a series of further horrors are discovered, the eyes of a nation turn to 10 Rillington Place.

In this riveting tale of violence, misogyny and tabloid frenzy, Kate Summerscale lifts the veil on what really happened inside the house - and suggests a new solution to one of the twentieth century's most notorious crimes.
 
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