PRE ORDER NOW AT Six Little Heads: The 1905 Amesbury Murders

Coming soon a book written by Neil Berrett. The book falls within the true crime and family history genres and is a tragic true story of an event that happened in Amesbury WIltshire. Available by 1st February 2025.

On a September day in 1905, Peter Robert Head, a beloved father and retired sergeant major in the Royal Artillery,  committed what is believed to be the largest mass murder in the county of Wiltshire,  shattering  his family, shocking the town of Amesbury,  and appalling the country.

This true story, researched and written by a former police detective, delves into Peter Head’s life from his childhood, military career, and family life to the events of that calamitous day,  and looks at the people of  Amesbury who were caught up in its consequences.

His traumatised daughter and devastated wife quietly  left the town afterwards, as they navigated lives suddenly reshaped by this crime. Through the resilience of the surviving women and the ripple effects of their stoic grief, the narrative tells their previously unknown ordeal and  reveals how generations of one family  endured the impact of a single tragic day.