The Moors Murderers: The Full Story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley

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Now this book isn’t going to be for everyone, much like horror books/movies, but unlike horror, this has two words that can scare even the toughest of people, True Crime! Ian Brady and his partner, Myra Hindley, killed five children between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. However, all the back issues of Lobster - Robin Ramsay's journal of parapolitics, which continues where this leaves off - are now available on one essential CD-rom. I have vivid memories of the bodies being brought down to the coroner's offices and the whole, grim story being slowly revealed.

The Moors Murders have a special place in the memories of those living in the shadow of the Pennines around Oldham and Ashton in the 60s. Smith was no hero, but there’s no doubt that Brady would have continued to kill had he had the chance.

The couple's vile torture and killings have shaken up British history ever since, with the couple often considered two of the most evil people to have lived. In a horror movie, you can pause or, if a book, can put it down and remind yourself that “this is just a work of fiction” You can’t do that with True crime. Between November 1963 and October 1965, Ian Brady, clerk, and Myra Hindley, typist, killed at least three—and possibly as many as five—young people varying in age from ten to seventeen, for no apparent motive. In it Emlyn Williams has achieved superbly his objective: “The dual accuracy of history and of imaginative understanding. This story had a lot of information on Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, as well as each case on the 5 victims.

Mr Cooks book packed as it is with court transcripts, police interviews, parole service documents, psychiatric reports and more paints a picture of a woman who knew exactly what she was doing. Hindley in particular became a master manipulator of everyone from her fellow inmates to prison governors and the utterly ridiculous prison “reformer” Lord Longford the ultimate “bloody do gooder”. What the author has done is quite clever, you read it as thought it's a story and you are in that story with the characters. Both factually and with it's immensely patronising, insulting and confusing method of trying to recreate the Yorkshire accent and dialect.Although it is sickening to read about the crimes, torture and abuse which must have been terrifying for the victim.