Killing For Company

SOON TO BE AN ITV DRAMA STARRING DAVID TENNANT

WINNER OF THE GOLD DAGGER AWARD FOR CRIME NON-FICTION

Dennis Nilsen, who died in May 2018, murdered at least 15 people before his arrest in 1983. This groundbreaking criminal study of his killings was written with Nilsen's full cooperation, resulting in a fascinating - and horrifying - portrait of the man who worshipped death.

On February 9th 1983 Dennis Nilsen was arrested at his Muswell Hill home, after human remains had been identified as the cause of blocked drains.

'Are we talking about one body or two,' a detective asked. Nilsen replied 'Fifteen or sixteen, since 1978. I'll tell you everything.'

Within days he had confessed to fifteen gruesome murders over a period of four years. His victims, all young homosexual men, had never been missed. Brian Masters, with Nilsen's full cooperation, has produced a unique study of a murderer's mind, essential reading for true crime aficionados.

“Brian Masters has given us a full, well-ordered, dispassionate account of Nilsen's life and crimes”

A meticulous study of the dark intricacies of the human mind The Bookbag Probably the best thing of its kind since In Cold Blood...a classic study in criminal mentality -- Colin Wilson Yorkshire Post 'A truly awesome tale, brilliantly told'. Literary Review 'Killing For Company must stand as one of the most remarkable and accurate accounts ever written of the singular relationship between a mass murderer and a society. Brian Masters, in the writing, has achieved the impossible. Though dealing with sensational and horrific matters he has managed, God knows how, to treat his material with such objectivity and restraint that what we have is not a penny dreadful from the Hammer House of Horror, but a bloody masterpiece'. Beryl Bainbridge

Brian Masters has written over twenty books on subjects as diverse as French literature, the dukedoms in Great Britain, E.F. Benson and Marie Corelli. His groundbreaking study of mass murderer Dennis Nilsen, Killing for Company, won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction in 1985. He is also highly regarded for his journalism.

'One of the most remarkable and accurate accounts ever written of the singular relationship between a mass murderer and a society' - Observer On February 9th 1983 Dennis Nilsen was arrested at his Muswell Hill home, after human remains had been identified as the cause of blocked drains. Within days he had confessed to fifteen gruesome murders over a period of four years. His victims, all young homosexual men, had never been missed. Brian Masters, with Nilsen's full cooperation, has produced a study of a murderer's mind which is unique of its kind. Killing for Company is a ground-breaking criminal study of the serial killer and necrophiliac Dennis Nilsen. Known to himself as 'The Kindly Killer' and to a shocked society as 'The Muswell Hill Murderer', this is one of the most shocking books you will ever read. 'A truly awesome tale, brilliantly told' - Literary Review Probably the best thing of its kind since In Cold Blood...a classic study in criminal mentality - Yorkshire Post

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