ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Geoffrey Wansell is an award-winning author, journalist and an expert in true crime. He was the authorised biographer of Frederick West, appointed by the Government. His most recent book, Pure Evil, is about those British murderers given whole life sentences in this country. Together with his daughter Molly, Geoffrey also has a weekly true crime podcast, Blood Ties, which has been running for the past four-and-a-half years.

The presenter of twenty-eight episodes of his own one-hour television series for CBS Reality – Murder By The Sea – he has also made more than 120 hours of television documentaries for Sky – Britain’s Most Evil Killers and World’s Most Evil Killers.

He has been the principal crime and thriller reviewer for the Daily Mail for the past decade, and before that was one of the paper’s leading feature writers.

Together with David Suchet, he wrote the best-selling book Poirot and Me in 2013, which has been published around the world. They met on the set of the 20th Century Fox film, When the Whales Came in 1988, which was based on a Michael Morpurgo story, on which he served as executive producer.