Christine Hart grew up in care and trained as a Private Detective, at age 19, alongside and under, ex MI6, MI5 and ex-CID officers. She worked as a Private Investigator cum investigative journalist on Fleet Street, by-lined and commissioned by the Daily Mail and the Sunday Times. She was the only journalist to interview the Real IRA and is a ‘Sunday Times best-selling author,’ with Hodder and Stoughton, in the WH Smith charts at number 3 and selling over 200k copies, translated into Punjabi. Hart has appeared as guest author on BBC World Service, on BBC News, Channel 4, GMTV and Amazon Prime.

Praise for C. J. Hart’s writing.

Val Hennessy, Daily Mail. If only she’d had a better editor; we might have the best book ever written about a childhood. *****

Doug White, reviewer, News of The World — ‘Reminiscent of Silence of the Lambs — hard to put down.’ ******

Jim Dole; editor, Sunday World. ‘This is Lady Chatterley’s Lover, in the shadow of a gunman instead of a Game-Keeper. *****

Henry Mc Donald — The Observer — Good story throughout, but more Mills and ‘BOOM!’ than Mills and Boon. *****

Christopher Berry-Dee, author of Talking with Serial Killers. *****

A super and rather unusual book. Well written with plenty of personal anecdotes. What appeals to me, as it will anyone with an interest in true crime, is Christine Hart’s unique talent in `accessing all areas’, specifically getting to interview Kenneth Alessio Bianchi, aka, `The Hillside Strangler.’ She will have her critics, of course, and we all do, but Hart not only talks-the-talk, she walks-the-walk, and spent years corresponding with Bianchi before, at great expense, she visited with him at the Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla. Having dealt with Bianchi, on a one-one-one basis myself, this serial killer, and master-manipulator is not someone to trifle with.