Published by University of Iowa Press Genres: Crime, Nonfiction, True Crime
Format: ARC, eBook
In Butcher’s Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness, the author presents four killers, their victims and their heinous crimes. Their crimes are not well known as other crimes committed around the same times as their garnered more press and revulsion.
The author did an impressive amount of research in the writing of this book. I previously another book by the author Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer was impressed by his research in that book as well. In this book, the author details their crimes and what happened to the killers. With each section, the author also details other crimes that were committed using the same means as the killers in this book.
Readers might find themselves asking, how did they get away with their crimes for so long? How many times can someone change their name and get away with it? How many deaths can be associated with one person and people don’t get suspicious?
Fans of true crime will find this interesting.
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Thank you to University of Iowa Press and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.