Book description
He drugged his first wife and staged a fireball car crash, collecting
a £200,000 insurance payout.
He cheated his second wife of her life savings and attempted to kill
her in a copycat crash.
He faked cancer to dupe his third victim into a bigamous marriage,
plotting her murder to steal her inheritance.
He is Malcolm Webster: The Black Widower.
After seventeen years of deception and brutality, Webster was
finally jailed for thirty years in July 2011 at the climax of one of
the longest trials in Scottish legal history. In this chilling book,
award-winning journalist Charles Lavery documents the Black Widower's
life and crimes, giving a compelling insight into the mind of a man
who killed for money and attempted to cover his tracks with drugs and fire.
Charles Lavery has spent more than 20 years working as an
investigative journalist. He was formerly the chief reporter at the
Sunday Mail
and now writes for several national publications on a freelance basis.
He was named Reporter of the Year at the 2009 Scottish Press Awards.
