Agatha Christie Jailbird Bronson Pens Thriller

Charles Bronson has written an Agatha Christie-style crime thriller novel.

Broadmarsh is about a murderer who is locked up in a mental asylum but escapes and goes on a killing spree.

It is the first novel from long-term lag Bronson, 68, who has previously had 19 non-fiction books published.

The prison hardman was inspired by his own five-year stay at Broadmoor after he was declared insane in 1978.

He wrote the book with author Richard Booth, who described it as “a cross between the queen of crime Christie and a Stephen King horror”.