Review: I loved this book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2012
I thought this was a really good book - I didn't know women could be so deadly back in the 1800's.  What was really good about the book was that it didn't dwell on unnecessary details - it provided clear case notes on each woman profiled, what they had done and how they were found out.  While poison was the murder weapon of choice in most cases that is to be expected given that women were not considered the physical equal of their partners, and a death by poison doesn't make a lot of mess - mess that the women would have had to clean up themselves if they had killed their victims any other way.  Another thing that I liked was that with the exception of Millie Dean I didn't know any of the women profiled.  Too many other books on serial killers use the same rehashed cases.  This author had done a lot more research and found cases that I have not come across before. I loved it and I will be buying some of the others in this series.Lisa OliverAuthor of Death, Funeral Poems and Famous Eulogies