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gmh711's review
2.0
2.5 stars. Think Ann Rule but not as exciting. The authors retell the story of a murder in a small Iowa town in 1900. It is based on extensive court, newspaper, and personal accounts. The ending did not give me the closure I would have liked. Most interesting to me was the story of Susan Glaspell, American playwright and winner of the Pulitzer, who covered the trial as a journalist.
alisonj's review
3.0
The story of Margaret Hossack is a good one, but this book about that story could have been better. The book contains lengthy quotes from trial transcripts; I would have appreciated fewer direct quotes and more synthesized narrative. Still, it provides a pretty interesting glimpse into domestic rural life at the turn of the twentieth century.
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