Inside the Mind of Rose West

Wife, Monster, Mother

By: Tanya Farber, Jeremy Daniel

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Paperback | 25 March 2025

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Rose West was, on the face of it, a mother living with her family in a semi in Gloucester. But behind closed doors, she was a monstrous killer who, with husband Fred, killed at least a dozen women and girls, including her own daughter Heather, sixteen, and stepdaughter, Charmaine, eight.

Rose was sadistic as both a mother and killer, and all her victims as well as her own children were subjected to horrific sexual violence and torture. Rose did paid sex work in the family home with husband Fred peeping through the holes he had made in the wall and listening on an intercom. They modified the house to take in lodgers and then preyed on them, as well as other young women hitching a lift or waiting for a bus.

In 1972, aged seventeen, Caroline Owens, who had been hired as a nanny, was drugged, attacked and raped, but managed to escape. But she could not bring herself to testify, so the Wests remained free.

Two decades would pass before Rose's dark secrets were discovered when nine of the victims' bodies were dug up in the garden and beneath the cellar at the West's home at 25 Cromwell Street. And now, three decades after this grim discovery, the workings of Rose West's twisted mind remain as mysterious as who played what role in this husband-and-wife folie deux.

About the Authors

Tanya Farber has worked as a journalist for two decades and specializes in narrative non-fiction. She has won four international journalism awards and many others in her home country of South Africa. She is author of two non-fiction books, Alf Kumalo: Through My Lens, and Blood On Her Hands - South Africa's Most Notorious Female Killers. She has a masters degree in journalism, and is currently working on her first fiction novel.

Jeremy Daniel is an author, scriptwriter, digital marketing specialist and musician. He isthe author of nine sports biographies for Jonathan Ball Publishers, including SiyaKolisi: Against All Odds which spent months on the bestseller list in SouthAfrica in 2020, and he has written for television, stage and print media forover two decades.

Industry Reviews

'What sets this book apart is its careful balance of presenting the facts with compassion for the victims while maintaining the brutal honesty required to understand the horror of the West’s actions. ' -- Netgalley reviewer

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