A body in a lake. A wife missing for 21 years. A husband’s denial of murder.

Jeremy Craddock, once a reporter with The Westmorland Gazette will talk about this well known crime, the subject of his newly released book.

This is a free event but please book your ticket as seating is limited. BOOK HERE

 Every story begins with a contract: the storyteller promises the reader a tale worth telling and the reader agrees to listen. A story without an ending is no story at all.

 In August 1997, Jeremy Craddock is a young newspaper reporter in the Lake District. When divers discover a suspicious package weighed down in Coniston Water, he is thrust into the heart of the biggest story of his career.

 The Lady in the Lake is a real-life murder mystery and true crime memoir that reads like a thriller. With new interviews, Craddock pens the final chapter of this haunting murder mystery. This is the true story of the Lady in the Lake murder case that shocked the world.

Jeremy Craddock will feature on Sky TV’s Forensics: Catching The Killer with an author interview in December 2024

   About the author:

 Jeremy Craddock is a journalist and author and teaches journalism at Manchester Metropolitan University. He began his career as a reporter at the Westmorland Gazette in the Lake District and covered the Lady in the Lake case in the 1990s, including Carol Park’s inquest in 1998. He is the author of The Jigsaw Murders: The True Story of the Ruxton Killings and the Birth of Modern Forensics, which was longlisted for the 2022 Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction.

THE LADY IN THE LAKE: A reporter’s memoir of a murder by Jeremy Craddock. Published by Mirror Books Paperback On sale October 10th, 2024