Title: awful book
Review: I got a copy of this book for free, and I gave it back after reading the intro and a few chapters.It's basically a series of high-school level essays about various "serial killers". Included among actual serial killers like Jack the Ripper and BTK are William the Conquerer, Saddam Hussein (a mass murderer, perhaps, but I've never heard him called a serial killer before), and Mary, Queen of Scotts. Most accounts seem pretty accurate in the historical details, although very superficial, but the motivations assigned to the killers don't mesh with modern behavioral/forensic psychology, at least in the sections I read.There are a lot of very good books out there that really delve into the question of what makes some people kill in this way and what we can do as a society, but this book isn't one of them.
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