THE PEEPSHOW

FROM BRITAIN S TOP SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER WINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON FICTION A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR The Times Sunday Times Financial Times Spectator Independent Tablet and New Statesman I loved it Richard Osman Shattering Val McDermid Gripping Sarah Waters In 1953 the bodies of three young women are found by a tenant in the walls of a Notting Hill house He tells the police that he chanced upon them while trying to put up a shelf for his transistor radio As a series of further horrors are discovered the eyes of a nation turn to 10 Rillington Place In this riveting tale of violence misogyny and tabloid frenzy Kate Summerscale lifts the veil on what really happened inside the house and suggests a new solution to one of the twentieth century s most notorious crimes LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR NON FICTION 2025