BRISTOL & BATH WHODUNNIT?

New softcover, 1st edn. The author explores 20th century murder cases drawn from all parts of the Bristol and Bath area, taking the reader to the heart of the ultimate crime - the untimely death of an innocent victim by violent murder. Why and how are such terrible deeds even contemplated, let alone carried out? Why would a young man cold-bloodedly shoot 2 teenage girls dead in Weston? What motive was there to gas an elderly man in Bath's leafy suburbs or drown a husband in sexual bath-time games in Henleaze? Who was the callous robber who choked to death a friendly shopkeeper in Bedminster? What thoughts went through the mind of the killer who attacked a vulnerable old lady in Loxton, and what drove child murderer John Straffen, who until he died recently, was Britain's longest serving prisoner, to commit his terrible deeds? These murderers were caught, and their stories are told here, but others are still unknown and at liberty. Known as 'cold cases' these are unsolved, terrible murders. The assault and murder of a young mother, her body left in woodland at Backwell; a savage attack on an elderly widow in Weston who was walking her dogs in Worlebury Woods; and the seemingly motiveless and brutal murder of a charity worker at her home in Bath. Someone knows 'whodunnit' and they are keeping dreadful, dark secrets. Illus., Bibliog. and Index. 158pp. New softcover.