Dancing with Death


Reg McKay

Category Fiction
Pub Date 2008
ISBN 1-84502-094-4
Extent 352pp
Price £12
Format Paperback, 234 x 156mm
Plate/Illustrations



Glasgow, 1968, and terror stalks the streets. When the first woman is murdered, they know they have something to fear. Soon they will know it’s a serial killer. Bible John. And who better to tell the story of Bible John than Bible John himself in his own words, through his diary.

They will know me as John and they will fear me.

What of the others – the cops, victims, journalists, private detectives, the Bible John lookalikes, the other John?

We meet them all when Ruth, a young psychologist obsessed with crime, goes on the hunt for Bible John. For Ruth it’s personal and professional. She trawls his hunting ground and encounters all those affected by Bible John. Real people on the streets. Through her, we hear their stories.

John the killer. Ruth the healer. Two voices. Two views. The hunter and the hunted. But which turns out to be which?

Bestselling crime writer Reg McKay turns to Scotland’s most famous unsolved crime for his latest crime novel.

Author information

Trailing Glasgow’s meanest streets for years as a social worker, in 1998 Reg McKay found himself unable to face the grey-faced men in grey suits so he left to write. A widely published investigative journalist, he has been a crime columnist for the Daily Record and is the author of ten bestselling books including The Ferris Conspiracy, Vendetta and Villains with Paul Ferris as well as The Last Godfather and Murder Capital.