I perch the tea on top of the red ring-binder on the corner of the desk and I switch on the two-bar electric heater and the computer -

Anabasis:

The bastard bits of an Acorn with Memorex RAMpacks, pirated parts from Radionics and Tandy, an unopened ZX80 still in its box, the whole machine covered in cassette tapes and blu-tack.

I sit down at the desk and stare at the wall above Anabasis:

At one map and twelve photographs -

Each photograph a face, each face a letter and a date, a number on each forehead:

I take the tea off the red ring-binder and open the first page:

Contents:

Divided by the years:

1974:

Joyce Jobson, attacked Halifax, July 1974.

Anita Bird, attacked Cleckheaton, August 1974.

1975:

Theresa Campbell, murdered Leeds, June 1975.

Clare Strachan, murdered Preston, November 1975.

1976:

Joan Richards, murdered Leeds, February 1976.

Ka Su Peng, attacked Bradford, October 1976.

1977:

Marie Watts, murdered Leeds, May 1977.

Linda Clark, attacked Bradford, June 1977.

Rachel Johnson, murdered Leeds, June 1977.

Janice Ryan, murdered Bradford, June 1977.

Elizabeth McQueen, murdered Manchester, November 1977.

Kathy Kelly, attacked Leeds, December 1977.

1978:

Tracey Livingston, murdered Preston, January 1978.

Candy Simon, murdered Huddersfield, January 1978.