My Brother the Killer

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A hugely impressive achievement. Hadley Freeman, author of House of Glass
At 8.00am on Monday 18th June 2001, Danielle Jones left home dressed in her school uniform and promptly vanished.

The 15-year olds body was never recovered, but Danielles parents soon learned that her Uncle Stuart, a close family friend, had concealed a decades-long history of sexual violence against teenage girls. Despite the absence of a body, Stuart Campbell was sentenced to life in prison for Danielles abduction and murder. But what set him on his path as a violent sexual predator And how do you come to terms with his actions if hes your own flesh and blood

In My Brother the Killer, Stuarts older brother Alix Sharkey chronicles the violent childhood and troubled teens that helped shape a bright and handsome little boy into one of Britains most notorious killers, and led to one of the UKs most unusual murder trials. Sharkey also poses several terrifying questions: what happens when you discover a deadly sexual predator in your family Is it possible to trace the root of his heinous crimes And with the clock ticking towards his possible parole, can Stuart Campbell be convinced to reveal the location of Danielles remains

A devastating hybrid of true crime and family memoir, My Brother the Killer examines the true cost of keeping dark family secrets.

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An incredibly heart breaking and affecting book I gulped it down in one sitting. So powerful about childhoods destroyed by violence, so beady eyed about adults trying to escape the past. A hugely impressive achievement. Hadley Freeman, author of House of Glass

An unflinching account a devastating look at the violent childhood that bound brothers together and from which only one of them was able to escape. Sunday Times

Author Bio

Alix Sharkey began his writing career at i-D magazine, eventually becoming co-editor. Over more than three decades in journalism he has filed hundreds of features on crime, popular culture and fashion for the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph, as well as various UK and international magazines. Alix has worked as news editor of MTV Europe, written a weekly column for the Independent and more recently studied creative writing at UCLA. He is presently working towards his MFA at Goddard College, and lives in Koreatown, Los Angeles.