Got this from a UK bookmoocher.

Um, yeah, this was all right. A bit of an educational trip for me, because this was all such a notorious case in Manchester in the 60s, long before I was born. So modern criminal history or something like that.

The title refers to one of the five victims, whose body has not yet been recovered. At the end there´s a bit about his family still stuck in limbo, and the author saying we need to find this body so that we can destroy Ian Brody´s dream of the perfect murder. But really this book is about Myra Hindley, and is the story of her life. She did have a rough childhood, and there´s this psychologist or whatever going on how these violent beginnings set her up for her future... but to be fair there are hundreds of thousands of people who have had equally or worse childhoods, and they´ve not gone on to be murders. It does seem that if she´d not met Ian Brody, she would never have ended up behind bars. He did actually do the killings, she helped with tempting the victim away, and the logistics of everything. He was the proper pyscho. And yet this book really focuses on her. I suppose it´s because she´s the one the author was communicating with before she died, and he got hold of all her papers afterwards.

So, interesting, educational in a way for us folks who weren´t around at the time, but pretty grim reading. I know the book explains why they thought they were justified in doing what they did, but it still boggles my mind how anyone could go ahead and do such things. Or maybe the scary part in her seeming so normal, is that threat that none of us know what we might be capable of if pushed. Hopefully most people would have enough control against such things as child murder though.

Taking to the Cats Protection League Shop in Haxby along with a number of other books. I need to have a bit of a clear out.