MANUEL: SCOTLANDS FIRST SERIAL KILLER

Over a period of two years from 1956, Peter Manuel, a petty thief and rapist, killed Anne Kneilands, Marion Watt, her daughter Vivienne and her sister Margaret, Isabelle Cooke and the Smart family - all in cold blood. But why did he do it? What drove him to commit such barbaric crimes? And could the police have caught him sooner? This book tells Manuel’s story, from his birth in the USA through the life of crime that would bring him to a sensational trial and ultimately end on Barlinnie gallows.