Fred  Rose, Howard Sounes
Fred  Rose, Howard Sounes
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Fred & Rose
The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors, from the Senior Producer of 'Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story' - now on NETFLIX

Author: Howard Sounes

Narrator: Howard Sounes

Unabridged: 14 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/14/2013


Synopsis

FRED & ROSE IS THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THIS INFAMOUS TRUE CRIME CASE - NOW UPDATED WITH A POSTSCRIPT FROM THE AUTHOR. FROM THE MIND BEHIND 'FRED AND ROSE WEST: A BRITISH HORROR STORY' - NOW ON NETFLIX.

Fred and Rose West are virtually unique in British criminal history: a husband and wife who loved and killed together.

During their long relationship, the Wests murdered a series of young women, burying the remains of nine victims under their home at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, including those of their daughter. What was left of Fred West's eight-year-old stepdaughter was dug up from under the Wests' previous Gloucester home; his first wife and nanny were buried in open country. Most victims had been decapitated and dismembered, their remains showing signs of sexual torture. These twelve are just the ones police found when the Wests were arrested in 1994. There may be more whose bones have not been located . . .

Howard Sounes broke the first major story about the Wests as a journalist, and covered the murder trial of Rosemary West, before writing Fred & Rose, the definitive account of this infamous case. Beginning with Fred's and Rose's bizarre childhoods, Sounes charts their lives and crimes in forensic detail, creating a fascinating and truly frightening account of a marriage soaked in blood.

About Howard Sounes

Born in London in 1965, Howard Sounes spent the early part of his career as a newspaper journalist. In 1994, while working for the Sunday Mirror, he broke major stories in the West murder case, then covered the case up to and including Rosemary West's trial. This book, Fred & Rose, was first published in 1995, following Mrs West's conviction. A bestseller, it has remained in print ever since. Following the success of Fred & Rose, Howard Sounes left newspaper journalism to write books full-time, and is now published in twenty-two languages around the world. He is the author of biographies of Bob Dylan (Down the Highway), Lou Reed (Notes from the Velvet Underground) and the American writer Charles Bukowski (Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life). He has written one other true crime book, Heist: The True Story of the World's Biggest Cash Robbery.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Laurie (barksbooks) on January 13, 2011

This is an account of the true life multiple murder and bizarre sex perpetrated by an ordinary looking man named Fred and his frumpy wife Rose. Together they raped, murdered, dismembered and buried at least ten (but likely many more) innocent women who fell into their clutches. Together. {{{shudders......more

Goodreads review by Kavita on May 07, 2017

It is rare to have a husband and wife serial killer team, operating for years altogether without anyone even noticing. This, in spite of friends, family, lodgers, police, people from the child service, and of course, some would-be victims who got away! Fred and Rose happened and survived for so long......more

Goodreads review by Ginger on June 03, 2024

Fred & Rose is an incredibly dark, true crime account of the serial killers Fred and Rose West, who were active in Gloucestershire, UK, between 1967 and 1987. All trigger warnings are applicable for this book. This is an excellent book if you are a fan of true crime accounts and can stomach the horr......more

Goodreads review by Katie on March 29, 2025

An interesting read, but was left feeling unsure on where I stood with the authors frequent references to ‘lesbian sex’. One example of this is where Sounes describes Rose as having a ‘penchant for sadistic lesbian sex.’ Rose was not a lesbian. She had sex with men and women alike, and was married t......more