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On 9th February 1983, Dennis Nilsen was arrested after fingers and human flesh were found blocking the drains outside his home in Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill. He murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983.

Humans have a grim fascination with death, and with those who bring it about. From Jack the Ripper and Dr Crippen to Ted Bundy and many more, we are eternally attracted to murder mysteries and thrillers with high body counts, not to mention the rapacious invaders from throughout history.
Dr Lynch, fresh from his evisceration of Herman Goering in A Mind Prone to Evil, here turns his attention to exploring the mundane and secretive world of the domestic serial killer.

“With wit and pathos, PS Lynch’s extraordinary collection of poems expresses ideas, emotions and a sense of place and time that any number of dramas or documentaries about Nilsen and his appalling crimes have failed to understand. Lynch paints a picture of the seediness and banality of what Nilsen did and where he did it, and grasps how the killer’s sense of himself was at odds with the life that he lived and the crimes that he’d committed. Uncompromising and insightful in equal measure.”
Prof. David Wilson