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Hunting Shadows: Peter Tobin

The truth about the serial killer who hid in plain sight

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Hunting Shadows: Peter Tobin

By: Jane Hamilton
Narrated by: David Monteath, Angela Ness
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Hunting Shadows is a gripping true crime memoir by Jane Hamilton, one of Scotland’s most experienced and well-known crime journalists. The book chronicles her decades-long career reporting on some of the country’s most harrowing and high-profile criminal cases - with a central focus on the chilling investigation into serial killer Peter Tobin.

Following Tobin’s arrest, she was one of the first journalists to question whether his crimes were more extensive than publicly known. Her reporting uncovered early warning signs and disturbing patterns that would later help prompt Operation Anagram - the nationwide police operation that sought to uncover the full extent of Tobin’s crimes.

She gained unprecedented access to Tobin’s personal world through exclusive interviews with his estranged wife and son - interviews no other journalist secured. Their revelations offered rare insight into Tobin’s double life and helped reveal how a serial killer hid in plain sight.

Hunting Shadows takes readers behind the scenes of major investigations, crime scenes, courtrooms, and newsrooms. It offers a rare inside look at the world of crime journalism, the pressures of reporting under scrutiny, and the responsibility of telling the stories of victims and survivors with truth and integrity.

This book will appeal to readers of high-calibre true crime such as The Five by Hallie Rubenhold, The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm, and I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara.©2026 Jane Hamilton (P)2026 W. F. Howes Ltd Art & Literature Crime Journalists, Editors & Publishers Murder True Crime Thought-Provoking Exciting
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I was expecting more from a journalist who was given access to those closest to Tobin. You won't find anything that hasn't already been available online for years.

There was also a lot of repetition throughout the chapters, especially regarding how Tobin hid in the gaps between police networks.

Details of what happened to each known victim are repeated beyond their designated chapters as well, so you end up feeling the whole work could have been cut down by about fifty percent.

I regret wasting a credit when you can get more comprehensive accounts for free on tv and YouTube

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A harrowing story that has been turned into how marvellous reporters are it seems that this particular journalist managed to get Tobin arrested all on her own not the Police or any one else
I would not bother with it again

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