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Harold Shipman: The True Story of Britain's Most Notorious Serial Killer
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The man in the photographs looks like a kindly grandfather, with a soft manner and a neatly trimmed beard. Anyone meeting him might assume a gentle, caring doctor. Harold Shipman was anything but. Behind that trusted, patient-focused image, he killed far more of his own patients than any other person in modern British history, using the authority of his medical role to hide what he was doing.
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This book traces his life from a childhood shaped by a controlling mother to his final days in prison. It describes the image he presented to colleagues and patients, then follows how that façade was stripped away. It considers what may have driven him, along with the institutional failures that let his crimes continue for so long.
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