Review: copy, paste, publish
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2013
This entire book seems to be copied and pasted from other sources -- my guess is wikipedia. There is no storytelling AT ALL, it is just a brief run-down of the person, although the details often conflict within the chapter (she was tall/short fat/thin), and there's nothing to convince you one way or the other. Mostly because these "serial killers" are stories of women from hundreds of years ago, there isn't much evidence either way. Several of the women accused of murdering their children lived in an era/place where mortality was high and MOST families had several children who died. It wasn't until the mother did something that a man didn't like (like not mourning properly or mourning too much or being assertive) that she was accused of killing her children. Almost all of these women plead their innocence all the way to the hangman's noose.Poor editing all around, it makes it hard to read.