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Tom Wood
A Best Selling True Crime Writer, Podcaster, Columnist
& Retired Detective
Tom's newest book has just launched 'The World's End Murders: The Inside Story'. This is a true crime story about one of the most notorious cases in Scottish criminal history of two innocent, murdered Edinburgh teenagers in 1977 and offers the detailed analysis only one of the original investigators could give. Revealing how over nearly four decades, detectives and scientists struggled to deliver justice.
'Ruxton: The First Modern Murder' is an incredible inside story of one of the most complex murder investigations (taking place in 1935 in Lancaster), that the world had ever seen and showcases the ground-breaking work of Scottish forensic scientists. Ruxton was the publisher's top selling book in '21, '22 & '23 & was shortlisted for the prestigious Scottish National Book Awards '21 by the Saltire Society.
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Tom is also a newspaper & magazine columnist plus podcaster sharing stories and opinions on crimes past & present - with almost four decades of extensive experience in policing.
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Tom's also a leading authority & spokesperson on
criminal matters, drugs & alcohol.
A Little About Tom
Tom Wood was born and bred in Edinburgh, where he spent almost four-decades in the police and was one of Scotland’s most senior and experienced operational police officers.
He has an extraordinary career spanning from ‘bobby on the beat’ in Stockbridge to senior ranking posts in the police.
Much of Tom’s career was spent in CID and investigating some of the country’s most serious crimes. And now, he’s a respected authority on criminal matters, a newspaper and magazine columnist, podcaster and published author of true crime.
And when he’s not writing, Tom is a keen motorcyclist and sailor but most enjoys the challenges presented by his brood of grandchildren!
Tom's Most Recent True Crime Book
'The World's End Murders: The Inside Story'
Launched 23 June 2024
Available in Print Version (Buy Now)
The horrific killing of two young Edinburgh women in October 1977 sparked a nationwide manhunt that turned into one of Britain's longest and most famous murder investigations.
Tom Wood, was the police chief who led the investigations of the two innocent young women, Helen Scott and Christine Eadie, last seen at the World's End pub on Edinburgh's Royal Mile.
His new book 'The World's End Murders - The Inside Story' covers the extraordinary commitment of the police enquiry over three decades that eventually led to the discovery of links to their deaths with Angus Sinclair, one of Scotland's most notorious murderers and sex offenders.
But this is not a gruesome tale of murder. It is a story of heroes - of the families of Helen and Christine who, with quiet dignity, have carried an unimaginable burden down the years, and of the police officers, the support staff and the scientists who persisted in their investigations and never gave up.
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And covers the sensational retrial of Angus Sinclair after he was acquitted in 2010. Angus Sinclair is the first person in Scottish legal history ever to have been tried for the same crime twice.
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Tom's work (which he originally had published on the World's End murders back in 2007 and 2013) are based on his extensive knowledge of this historic murder enquiry, has been given a huge overhaul, re-worked and can be purchased here.
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To Buy The World's End Murders: The Inside Story click here.
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"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Get In Touch
One of the best aspects about being an author, is hearing feedback from my readers.
I'm also available for media opportunities, covering the fields of criminal matters as well as the police's perspective on drugs and alcohol as well as book talks and lectures. I look forward to hearing from you.
