num_pages: 432
description: Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough.  Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved.  Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered.  But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found.
language: English
title: The Blooding
titlecomplete: The Blooding
genres: Historical, True Crime, Crime, History, Science, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Horror, Nonfiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 1963
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Fact Crime
publisher: Bantam