Robin Jarossi

My latest book is Force of Darkness, a non-fiction look at London’s wartime Blackout killer Gordon Cummins. Several years of research went into this, including visits to archives and Wandsworth prison. As a result, the book includes new insights on the case and the people caught up in these extraordinary events.

The Real Ted Hastings, which looks at the real police corruption scandals that inspired the BBC hit drama Line of Duty, was published by Mardle Books in May 2023.

This made it a busy 12 months for me, as Murder by the Sea, a companion book featuring cases from the CBS Reality series of that name, was published by Mardle the previous July.

I have a Substack newsletter that features articles on true-crime cases, research and interviews I’ve been doing. This can be found at personsunknown.net

Finally, I’m the author of true-crime book The Hunt for the 60s’ Ripper. This is a re-investigation of the case of a little-known serial killer in west London during the Swinging Sixties. For this I talked to several former detectives and profilers to explore what might have gone wrong in the original investigation, and why the killer escaped justice.

The book led to a BBC4 documentary, Dark Son: The Hunt for a Serial Killer. I was interviewed for that programme and became a regular contributor to TV series such as Murder by the Sea and other documentaries.

When it comes to fiction, I have contributed short stories to one or two anthologies, such as Action: Pulse Pounding Tales.