REDHANDED

'An Exploration of Criminals, Cannibals, Cults and What Makes a Killer Tick' is the highly anticipated book from the hosts of the UK?s number one true crime podcast Redhanded. The book rejects the outdated narrative of killers and monsters and that a victim 'was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.' Instead it dissects the stories of killers to challenge perceptions and asks the hard questions about society, gender, poverty, and cultural drivers of the most extreme of human behaviour to find out what makes a killer tick. In 2018 a 25 year old man named Alek Minassian killed ten and injured 16 people who were waiting outside a tennis game in Toronto. The fact that his victims were mostly women was no accident. He made his motivations clear and told investigators about the time on the incel forums and through gritted teeth explained how angry he was at women after he had been rejected by a girl in 2012, six years before the attack. He stated he was a 'supreme gentleman' and angry that women would give their love and affection to all these 'obnoxious brutes' instead of him. He told the police he knew a lot of other guys on the Internet who felt the same way who were just 'too cowardly to act on their anger.' He called it the 'incel rebellion'. An incel is an involuntary celibate unable to find a romantic and sexual partner who feel that women are entirely to blame as they are shallow and simple. With these visceral revelations and trademark humour, the authors look at bad genes, Brunner's Boys and Bundy's PCL-R, insanity, misogyny, cults, relationships and hormones, bigotry and sex including torture trailers, tribal tats and truth or consequences. Powerful stuff, bibliography and conclusion. 246pp, line art.