The unsolved Jersey murder of Tuula Hook is being revisited after 60 years

Tuula Hook's death has remained a mystery since 1966, but a murder-solving author is writing a book as a final plea to anyone who knows what happened.

The young Finnish au pair's story captured Mark Bridgeman's attention when he planned to write a series of short stories about the island's true crime.

When discovering the story of Tuula Hook, he says the mystery surrounding her 'tragic' death warranted a book of its own.

"Tuula's family have been hanging on for 60 years.

"When I came across this case, I thought this case was so tragic."

Tuula Hook

On New Year's Eve, in 1966, Tuula's body was discovered at the entrance of a field in Rue Laurens, St Clement, with severe head injuries.

Police concluded she was hit over the head with a heavy object.

It is believed she was on her way to meet friends at the Pontac House Hotel, which is just down the road from where she was found.

Rue Laurens in 1966 (above) and 2013 (below), where Tuula Hook was found murdered on New Year's Eve in 1966

Miss Hook was last seen at 8:00 pm at a bus stop in Georgetown, just five minutes from her home on Beach Road in Havre des Pas.

Witnesses say it was 'pouring with rain' and very foggy on 30 December, the bus timetable had also changed because of New Year's.

Several people saw a car pull up and offer Tuula a lift East, which she accepted.

That was the last time Tuula Hook was seen alive.

Georgetown in 1966

Tuula first came to the island in the summer of 1965, before going back home to Finland.

Although she told her parents she had fallen in love with the island and returned the following year.

Whilst here, she worked for The Southampton Hotel in the Weighbridge.

Mark says in the weeks before her death she suddenly started behaving very differently.

"We know that she received a threatening phone call, which visibly shocked her, but we don't know who made that phone call and the contents of it."

The Southampton Hotel in 1966

"Apparently she did see somebody in the street one day, and she seemed quite shocked and threatened by that, but we just don't know why.

"We don't know whether that has anything to do with her death, or not, which is one of the things I'm trying to find out."

Tuula moved accommodation several times and sought new jobs, after the call and encounter in town.

The 20-year-old asked her employers not to pass her address onto anyone and refused to tell her last employer where she lived.

Miss Hook started working at The Plaza Nova Restaurant two days before her death.

The Plaza Nova Restaurant in 1966

The true crime writer says the Beast of Jersey was considered a suspect.

"The serial sex offender, who was plaguing the island at the time, may well have been the person who killed her, but it doesn't fit his method and he never admitted to that, so I'm not certain if he is or not.

"Apart from that we just don't know.

"The police have interviewed several suspects over the years but no body has ever been charged for the offence, so we're hoping we can find somebody who fits the bill."

Tuula Hook

It is possible Tuula's murderer is dead, but the Mark Bridgeman hopes there is someone in Jersey who knows what they did and are prepared to talk, after almost 60 years.

"It's very unusual for this type of thing to happen and no body knew who did it.

"There may be a wife or a friend or relative of the person who killed her who may be prepared to come forward."

"Tuula has a sister and a niece left alive and it would be an amazing thing to help them, I can't imagine what it must've been like.

"Not everybody knows this but Tuula's parents had another daughter murdered many years later in Finland, they've had two of their four daughters murdered - I can't imagine what that must be like for anybody."

Tuula Hook

Mr Bridgeman plans to explore Jersey's dark decade in the 1960s as a background and introduction to Tuula's story.

It will look into what the island was like at the time and why it was such a difficult job for the police.

Mark also wants to focus on the 20-year-old's life and what she was like as a person, rather than just the end of it.

"I've written several true crime stories before, it tends to be what I specialise in.

"I have manage to solve a previously unsolved murder in a book about the Yorkshire Dales and I'm hoping to do it again."