Thomas Quick: The Making of a Serial Killer - Softcover

Råstam, Hannes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782110704 ISBN 13: 9781782110705

Publisher: Canongate Books, 2013

Synopsis

'I wonder what you'd think of me if you found out that I've done something really serious . . .'

So begin the confessions of Thomas Quick - Scandinavia's most notorious serial killer.

In 1992, behind the barbed wire fence of a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, Thomas Quick confessed to the murder of an eleven-year-old boy who had been missing for twelve years. Over the next nine years, Quick confessed to more than thirty unsolved murders, revealing he had maimed, raped and eaten the remains of his victims.

In the years that followed, a fearless investigative journalist called Hannes Råstam became obsessed with Quick's case. He studied the investigations in forensic detail. He scrutinised every interrogation, read and re-read the verdicts, watched the police re-enactments and tracked down the medical records and personal police logs - until finally he was faced with a horrifying uncertainty.

In the spring of 2008, Råstam travelled to where Thomas Quick was serving a life sentence. He had one question for Sweden's most abominable serial killer. And the answer turned out to be far more terrifying than the man himself . . .

About this title

About the Author

Hannes Råstam was an investigative reporter for SVT (Swedish Public Broadcasting). He won a number of awards for his work, including the Golden Spade, the Great Journalist Award, the Prix Italia, the Golden Nymph and FIPA d'Or. After a battle with cancer, Råstam passed away while finishing this, his first book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782110704
• ISBN 13: 9781782110705
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480