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Title: A HODGE-PODGE OF MAKE-BELIEVE
Review: This book was a disappointment. I am a true crime reader and found this to be nothing more than self-indulgence on the part of the subject, Janice Knowlton, and plain bad writing by Michael Newton who usually writes factual, good bite-sized takes on crime and criminals. I was bored and irritated with this book and finally trashed it. I suppose there is value as far as Knowlton sharing her past abuses, if they actually happened (I am a female who experienced sexual abuse by a brother), but in this case who cares and where does it lead? The 'recovered memory' theory has been done to death and certainly doesn't work here. The reader is advised to check out the book by John Gilmore, entitled SEVERED, which so far appears to be the only authentic nonfiction account on the Black Dahlia murder case.
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