In November 2008, Peter Tobin was charged with the murder of two young women, after human remains were found in the back garden of his former home in Margate. At the time, he was already serving a life sentence for another murder.

Naturally the police started to suspect Tobin had also targeted other women. In The Lost British Serial Killer, the UK's top criminologist, David Wilson, and journalist Paul Harison find out the truth behind these murders, and the connections between Tobin's case and another Scottish serial killer who eluded justice: Bible John.

On the anniversary of this case comes a ground-breaking criminal study on what drives someone to kill and kill again, how serial killers escape detection, and what we can do to stop them.