Geoffrey Wansell is an award-winning freelance journalist who works principally for the Daily Mail. He has written ten books on a variety of subjects and is the official historian for the Garrick Club. Wansell was the authorised biographer of the Gloucester-based serial killer Frederick West, having been appointed to the role by the Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court, as a result he has been acknowledged as one of Britain's leading authorities on serial murderers. He was short-listed for the Whitbread Prize (now the Costa Book Award) for his biography of Terence Rattigan. He lives in London.http://www.geoffreywansell.com/