“Today he could be a respectable old man of those who walks through Bilbao or Glasgow”.
, 32, and Helen Puttock, 29, over a period of 18 months between 1968 and 1969 in Glasgow.The shadow of his name still hangs heavy over Glasgow, over half a century on from the unsolved murders that bear his name.
It’s the latest success for the Donostia-born author, whose Baztán Trilogy has seen her become the most celebrated Spanish literary phenomenon in recent years. “Experts say that these murderers do not stop killing until they are in jail, dead or have moved to another country. He could be in Bilbao or in any of the large ports where in the eighties all kinds of materials were exported from Scotland. A city that is super polluted, dirty and with a lot of noise”.
The author said she sought the opinions of experts in both psychology and psychiatry to help her draw a profile of Bible John for the novel, which she said “made it clear how I should approach the character I was facing, a victim of childhood abuse”.
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