KILLER STORIES, conversations with South African serial murderers

210pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2024

Based on recorded interviews with thirteen serial killers in maximum security prisons. Brin Hodgskiss conducted the interviews while doing research for his PhD in psychology. 

The killers' versions are combined with the true-crime stories behind them, and an interpretation of the tales using narrative psychology.

Brin Hodgskiss grew up in Johannesburg and has worked with the South African and UK police. Currently he works in England’s National Health Service and is a freelance consultant in the psychology of storytelling.

Nicole Engelbrecht is the creator and host of the True Crime South Africa podcast, and author of Samurai Sword Murder: The Morne Harmse story.