Review: Kept me up at night-Great details!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2013
A great non-fiction book, like a good documentary film, must achieve the goals it states in the opening. John Summit accomplishes everything he says he will, and more. I got gruesome details and in-depth factual explanations about some of the most interesting unsolved crimes ever. I liked the emphasis on American crimes and appreciated that Jack the Ripper was featured, even though it was not an American crime, because of the Ripper's importance, being the first, in the development of `profiling' of serial killers.My interest in this subject was piqued by a character I am developing in my latest novel.  My protagonist may evolve into a detective and I needed to have facts about serial killers. Facts I got and then some. For a straight forward revelation of factual information, this series of stories was surprisingly engrossing. The book seems to be laying the ground work for a series. Coming from an writer who researches so deeply, I might have liked to hear some of the author's reflections or intuitions. I will follow this writer.