Brady and Hindley, Fred Harrison
Brady and Hindley, Fred Harrison
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Brady and Hindley
Genesis of the Moors Murders

Author: Fred Harrison

Narrator: Liam Gerrard

Unabridged: 5 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/19/2023

Synopsis

During the early 1960s, just as Beatlemania was exploding throughout the United Kingdom, a pair of psychopathic British killers began preying on the very young, innocent, and helpless of Greater Manchester. Between 1963 and 1965, Ian Brady and his lover and partner, Myra Hindley, were responsible for the abduction, rape, torture, and murder of five young victims, ranging in age from ten to seventeen years old. The English press dubbed the grisly series of homicides "the Moors Murders," named for the desolate landscape where three of the corpses were eventually discovered.

Based in part on the author's face-to-face prison interviews with the killers, Fred Harrison's fascinating and disturbing true crime masterwork digs deeply into Brady and Hindley's personal histories to examine the factors that led to their mutual attraction and their evolution into the UK's most notorious pair of human monsters. It was during these interviews that new details about the killers' terrible crimes surfaced, compelling the police to reopen what was arguably the most shocking and sensational homicide case in the annuls of twentieth-century British crime. With a new introduction by the author, meticulously researched and compellingly written, Brady and Hindley is the definitive account of Britain's most hated serial killers.

Contains mature themes.

About Fred Harrison

Fred Harrison is a graduate of the Universities of Oxford and London. He was chief reporter for the Sunday People when he secured the jail cell confession of Ian Brady. During the 1990s, he worked in Russia as a consultant on how to transform the wrecked command economy. Harrison was the only economist to give a ten-year warning to the Blair government in Britain that house prices would peak in 2007, to be followed by depression. He is currently director of the Land Research Trust, London. He is the author of Brady and Hindley: Genesis of the Moors Murders and As Evil Does.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heather on May 03, 2016

This book only really works is you know a *lot* about the Moor Murders already. I don't. I've heard of them, but barely know anything. This book isn't really about the crimes themselves, per say, but about the people involved. However, you can't basically exclude the murders when you are writing abo......more

Goodreads review by Darcia on June 11, 2016

I read a lot of true crime, particularly older crimes, and the description for this one intrigued me. It's not quite what I expected, though, and consequently was not nearly as engaging as it could have been. I knew virtually nothing about this case before reading this book. If, like me, you know no......more

Goodreads review by Dreadlocksmile on April 18, 2009

Without sensationalising the whole moors murders too much, Fred Harrison manages to provide an intelligent and thought provoking account of what happended within the life and crimes of this murderous couple. At no point in the book does he delve into particularly graffic and unnecessary detail, but......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on April 12, 2025

3.5⭐️ This is not a fun, relaxing read, this is a book based on facts from British history and contains horrific information about what happened to the victims of these two infamous killers This is for my true crime watchers, readers and researchers, if you are interested in the minds of people like......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on October 07, 2017

I don't really know how to describe it, but this book sort of passed me by a little bit. Feels shallow, brief and rushed, rather than the comprehensive work I had hoped for. Be warned also, that you only really take anything from the book if you already have detailed knowledge of the moors murderers......more

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