Princess Fuzzypants here:
I enjoy reading mysteries and histories and I always enjoy true crime stories. The course of love in the sixteen stories in the book certainly did not run true.. The victims range from the totally reprehensible to innocent and somewhere in between. Some of the murderers had good reason to do the deed. Some were out and out psychopaths and all felt that the killing of another human being was justified.
For most of them, the jury, sadly, did not agree.
Most of the stories take place from the waining years of the 19th Century to post WWII. Some of them are well known. There is the story of Anne Perry, before her writing fame and name change, that rocked the world in 1954. She is never identified in the book but if you recall the story, it is evident.
They are definitely a group that no one would like to meet in a dark alley but they are all fascinating, often in an evil way. The reader cannot help by cheer when justice is done.
It's an entertaining read, which is great for nipping in and out of the book as each chapter is self contained and short.
I give it five purrs and two paws up.

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Adrian Vincent brings these stories alive by turning these old fashioned murders into easily digestible snippets of gory and compelling true-crime. I love dipping into this book and finding lesser-known tales of deception and murder. Young people love true crime and they usually fly off te shelves in our library. This was a great read that I see as being phenomenally popular and sparking a whole trend for internet research to turn up the truths of these crimes