Bøger af Viviane Janouin-Benanti

In the 1960s in Manchester, England, a teenage girl went missing, then a little boy, then another child, and another...a serial killer was on the loose and preying on children. The city was in a panic. What people never imagined, however, was that it was a pair of killers, a couple, carrying out these horrific crimes together, making them even harder to catch. This couple, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, would become known as the infamous Moors Murderers.But how and why do two young people grow up to become serial killers? This true crime novel traces the evolution of each killer, from childhood through young adulthood and into the depravity of their life together as serial killers. Seeking notoriety, they engage in some of the most atrocious and perverse crimes imaginable. This is a journey that is both shocking and profoundly disturbing.The novel also tells the stories of the children who were abducted and of the shattered families who never stopped searching for the truth. And it recounts the tireless efforts of the local police to identify the monsters who were wreaking havoc on their city and gripping the entire country in fear.This is a true story that takes place on a desolate moor in England, but one that might happen anywhere. You'll hug your children tighter than ever after reading this engrossing version of the story of the Moors Murders.

It was the end of May 1901. Reporters from all over France descended on the small city of Poitiers.After receiving an anonymous tip, police discovered a 52-year-old woman, emaciated, completely naked, making strange noises and uttering incomprehensible words and phrases, in a dark room with the window shutters nailed and locked shut, a room that happened to be in the very proper mansion of the widow of a former dean of the university's prestigious Faculté des Lettres.The woman was her daughter and was the sister of a former subprefect who lived just across the street.It was an unthinkable crime: a woman held captive in her home for twenty-five years. The scandal ripped through Poitiers and then all of France. It would dominate public discourse in the country until the trial was over.This book is also about a man and a woman and all that kept them apart. One was Protestant, the other Catholic; one a liberal Républicain, the other from a conservative Royalist family; one with family ties to nobility, the other dedicated to helping the working man; one older and wiser, the other young and carefree. Everything was against them.During the 19th century, France was struggling to stabilize its government, pitting those yearning for a true republic against those wanting a return to the monarchy. This young couple was caught in the eye of the storm, falling in love in spite of it all and suffering the consequences.To understand what really happened, author Viviane Janouin-Benanti pored over the newspaper accounts of the scandal and read all of the court documents and witness testimonies.>With a background in law, politics, and public health, Viviane Janouin-Benanti spent many years working with community outreach organizations in France. Today, she devotes her time exclusively to writing novels. Fascinated by true stories, her aim is to breathe life into her characters: real people who were the perpetrators and victims at the center of major criminal and historical cases.Translated by Elizabeth Blood