The Blooding

Joseph Wambaugh
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The True Story of the Narborough Village Murders. Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found.
Genres: True CrimeNonfictionCrimeMysteryHistoryScienceBook ClubThrillerMystery ThrillerHistorical
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