"From Mr Nice Guy to mass murderer, this true crime page-turner dissects the outwardly mild-mannered perpetrator of brutal femicides."
Framed in the context of a recent (February 2026) murder confession that came twenty years after the crime, and twenty years after the perpetrator, Steven Wright, was convicted for five other murders, Karen Bryans’ The Suffolk Strangler is un-put-down-able for fans of punch-packing true crime that plays out with real-time urgency.
Written in an edgy, pacey style, and combining in-the-moment accounts of the unfolding, original murder investigation with interviews with Wright’s parents, and former friends and partners, Bryans is motivated by wanting to understand what drives men to murder women: “how are we ever to stop the killings if we don’t understand what leads to them? There are the common causes such as jealousy, domestic violence, and the if-I-can’t-have-you-no-one-will ego that can’t countenance rejection. And then there are the predators”.
Into that context, Bryans follows threads that connect the six women who are known to have been murdered by Steven Wright. Packed with shocking detail on Wright’s ten-day, 2006 killing spree, and the investigation that compelled the police to try to catch the killer before more victims were claimed, The Suffolk Strangler also paints vivid pictures of the women who were murdered. Given Wright’s 2026 confession to yet another killing, Bryans also posits the question as to whether there might be more victims, all of which amounts to an unflinchingly bold true crime book that’s likely to shock, unsettle, provoke outrage, and prompt conversation.
The Suffolk Strangler is the harrowing and propulsive account of how a mild-mannered Mr Nobody, Steven Wright, dropped his partner to work at an IT call centre one evening, then launched into an orgy of rage and violence against some of the most vulnerable women in our society.
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The Suffolk Strangler is the harrowing and propulsive account of how a mild-mannered Mr Nobody, Steven Wright, dropped his partner to work at an IT call centre one evening, then launched into an orgy of rage and violence against some of the most vulnerable women in our society. It unpicks the making of a monster who described himself as 'placid' in court and who lived in Ipswich's red-light district, known and trusted by the women who worked those streets.
The Suffolk Strangler features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, Social services and welfare, criminology, Society and Social Sciences, Social services and welfare, criminology, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Biography: general, Biography: social media, True crime: serial killers and murderers
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The Suffolk Strangler was written by Karen Bryans and published by Mirror Books
The Suffolk Strangler has 288 pages
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