He killed more British citizens than any single criminal in history. And his patients loved him.

Harold Shipman was a family doctor in a small town in northern England. He wore glasses. He had a beard. He made house calls. He remembered your name, asked about your grandchildren, and never rushed an appointment. He was, by every measure that mattered to the people of Hyde, the best GP they'd ever had.

He was also injecting them with lethal doses of diamorphine and watching them die in their armchairs.

Two hundred and fifteen confirmed kills. Probably more. Over twenty three years, one ordinary looking man in a white coat committed the worst serial murder in modern British history, and nobody stopped him. Not the police. Not the NHS. Not the General Medical Council. Not the pharmacists who filled his prescriptions. Not the six doctors who countersigned his cremation forms. Not the coroners. Not the colleagues who joked about his high death rate and called him "Dr Death" behind his back, then laughed it off and went home for dinner.

Shipman Decoded goes beyond the facts and into the mind. This is not a biography. This is a psychological autopsy of the most dangerous man who ever held a stethoscope, written by Craig Beck with the blunt honesty, dark humour, and razor sharp insight that his listeners have come to expect. From Shipman's childhood in Nottingham and the death of his mother to the forged will that finally brought him down, this audiobook traces the making of a killer and asks the questions that the headlines never answered.

Why did he do it? How did he choose his victims? What was happening inside his head when he sat at a dying woman's kitchen table and drank her tea? Why did every system designed to catch people like him fail so completely? And what does his story tell us about the way we trust, the way we defer, and the dangerous assumptions we make about the people who hold power over our lives?

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