Three bodies in ten days.

In March 2013, the quiet city of Peterborough became the setting for one of the most shocking murder sprees in modern British history. Three men were brutally stabbed and dumped in ditches around the city. Then, as police closed in, the killer fled across the country and tried to murder two more strangers at random.

The most terrifying part was not the savagery of the crimes, but the identity of the person behind them.

Joanne Dennehy was a thirty-year-old mother of two. Charming, manipulative and utterly without remorse, she became one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers – and one of only three women ever to receive a whole-life sentence.

The Peterborough Ripper is the gripping true story of how Dennehy transformed from a troubled young woman into a remorseless murderer driven by a desire for violence, infamy and control. Drawing on police interviews, court evidence and psychological analysis, this book traces the chilling path from her fractured early life to the frenzied ten-day killing spree that horrified the nation.

This is more than the story of a killer. It is the story of the victims whose lives were stolen, the detectives who raced to stop her, and the terrifying question at the heart of the case:

How can someone kill simply because they want to know what it feels like?

Dark, disturbing and impossible to forget, The Peterborough Ripper takes you inside one of the most chilling criminal cases in British history.