The Blooding

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 0688086179 some foxing to page ends, corners bumped; dust jacket is scuffed a bit, some light edge wear; Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found.