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Neil Root

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Crime, History, Historical Fiction

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I was born in London in 1971. I love reading and writing, as well as films, travelling, and meeting people. I write true crime, crime fiction, literary criticism and journalism.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 274 ratings · 29 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	Gone: The Disappearance of Claudia Lawrence and Her Father's Desperate Search for the Truth 3.80 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 4.23 avg rating — 40 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cold Blooded Evil: The true story of the 'Ipswich stranglings' 3.51 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frenzy! Heath, Haigh and Christie: The First Great Tabloid Murderers 3.63 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twentieth-Century Spies 3.32 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crossing the Line of Duty: How Corruption, Greed and Sleaze Brought Down the Flying Squad 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Killed Rosemary Nelson?: At last, the full story of the conspiracy behind the assasination of Northern Ireland's top human ri by Neil Root (Goodreads Author), Ian Hitchings 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadowside 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Murder Gang: Fleet Street’s Elite Group of Crime Reporters in the Golden Age of Tabloid Crime 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Neil Root rated a book it was amazing Stench: The Axe In The Head Murder by G.M. Barden (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This novel's plot stems from the gruesome murder of Daniel Morgan in southeast London in 1987, and then its tentacles spread out to take in both low-level and heavy criminals, on-the-make middlemen and corrupt police officers, with a heady dose of re ...more
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