Phil Clarke: 8 books

Luke Conway is a schoolboy who struggles academically, but has a close affinity with nature and the outdoor life. This leads him to trespass on the Cordenwood estate, where Thornton is the feared and respected head gamekeeper. He is also a veteran of the Falklands War, whose psychological scars he...

His bullet-ridden, half-naked body was in the back-seat of the car while her naked body lay spread-eagled and slashed, her private parts and left breast missing. The District Attorney discovered what had happened to the breast when a piece was sent to her in a plastic bag. The Monster of Florence...

Lured away from prying eyes, she had been raped and stabbed to death with a screwdriver. The attack was so frenzied, police knew the murderer must be covered in blood. The killer’s chilling communiqué to the police declared his evil intentions – “Beware! I shall make you...

On 1 September 2004, a group of terrorists disguised as repairmen infiltrated a school in Beslan, Russia. Using concealed weapons they took 1100 children and adults hostage. The world looked on aghast as the siege played out on live TV. Hostages tells the incredible and often harrowing stories surrounding...

Her throat had been slashed twice from left to right, while a deep vertical wound had ripped her abdomen open from the breastbone, exposing her entrails to the heavens. Soon Scotland Yard received a letter from the killer, written in red ink, ending with words that would become forever feared –...

A decapitated, disembowelled human carcass was strung up like a dead animal, and nine severed vulvae were found in a box with a belt made from female nipples. He admitted that not all fifteen bodies were his own kills; some were corpses that he had dug up from the local graveyard. Ed Gein just liked...

The night after the double murder, his thirst for blood became unquenchable and when she said she'd rather die than have sex his chilling reply was instant: "Die then!" Soon rumours arose that the killer was drinking the blood of his victims; newspapers were quick to brand him the...

Imagine coming face to face with the kind of extreme crime that can only be conceived by a truly evil mind. Acts so powerful that they can scar a whole nation for generations. The perpetrators manage to achieve a level of notoriety only usually afforded to Hollywood icons. In their own twisted imaginations...