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Hunting Evil: Inside the Ipswich Serial Murders
by: Paul Harrison, David Wilson

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780751540246
ISBN: 0751540242
Label: Sphere
Manufacturer: Sphere
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: March 20, 2008
Publisher: Sphere
Studio: Sphere
Sales Rank: 58300

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Brilliant
I have just finished reading his book and it is brilliant! It is a great mix of true crime, academic criminology and new journalism. It also suggests new theories about how to look at serial killing - based on Wilson's other books and his career working with serial killers - and he suggests that we should stop analysing the serial killers and their motivation, and instead look at the people that they are able to kill. He calls this the "structural tradition". I read some of the other reviews and they didn't seem to pick up on this aspect of what has been argued here - despite the fact that Harrison and especially Wilson were at pains to draw this point out, and which explains why they were not in least concerned about interviewing Wright ... Read More:

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- Ultimately a Disappointment
Let's cut straight to the chase: this book is ultimately a disappointment.

On the plus side, the book is a good journalistic account of the course of the investigation into the 5 murders, and does reveal several facts that were not publicised during the investigation (particularly in relation to suspect Tom Stephens). But it will never go down as one of the great true crime books.

The lack of an interview with the killer, Steve Wright, is a glaring omission - and the authors know this. That is why the reader is repeatedly reminded of the fact that most killers either do not talk about their crimes at all (e.g. Harold Shipman) or, when they do, lie (e.g. Fred West). But this means that any conclusions as to why Wright ... Read More:

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- Interesting subject but poorly written
This is a case which captured the world's media - a serial killer who worked quickly and right under the nose of the police to kill five girls in quick succession. I was interested to read this account of the crimes, but I was disappointed with the way it was written. The style of writing is rather pretentious and unfortunately sounds like an Open University textbook, and it means that the writing doesn't flow as a story or lend any reality or humanity to the situation. The writers could benefit from reading up on the Plain English campaign.

I read a lot of Ann Rule books and she always manages to portray the victims warmly and genuinely, and I feel that is missing from this book - you don't really get a grasp of the victims as people. ... Read More:

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- DO SERIAL KILLERS SELL BOOKS?
Serial Killers sell newspapers - but can they sell books?

We know tabloid sales soar when front pages carry gripping headlines declaring coverage of the atrocities carried out by such murderers. Nowadays it often appears Red Top readers - and to a lesser extent broadsheet readers, too - just can't get enough of the horrifically detailed accounts of other people's very real misery.

Journalist Paul Harrison and Criminologist David Wilson have combined their fascinatingly informative experiences of being `on the ground' at the scenes of the Ipswich Murders - the killing of 5 prostitutes by Serial Killer Steve Wright in the Suffolk town in late 2006 - and cleverly packaged them into an eye-catching paperback, `Hunting Evil; Inside ... Read More:

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- This co-authored hodge-podge fails ...
The story of the Ipswich killer Steve Wright has the makings of a classic true crime tale: the melancholy setting, the rate at which he murdered, with touches of the grotesque. There is also the underlying story of prostition in Britain. Who would have thought a town like Ipswich even had a red light area? The story also has the benefit of a clean ending: the killer is caught, tried and convicted.

However, as is often the case with co-written books, true crime and otherwise, HUNTING EVIL (hackneyed title by the way) is a hodge-podge. The journalist Paul Harrison has a good story to tell and when he actually relates his story in a simple straightforward way -- the murders, police investigation, arrest and so forth -- this is compelling. In recognition ... Read More:

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