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Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer

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lilithsnow's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

What a page turning read! I loved the tone of this book. It was serious enough for the subject matter (serial killers) without taking itself too seriously. The Nannie chapter was perfectly placed to bring in a more lighthearted tone - killer granny - before moving on to the more… depressing(?) themes of the following women killers. While Nannie didn’t really know why she killed, it was more for her pleasure than anything, the sisters from Fez seemed to start out from necessity of poverty - not that that excuses any of their actions at all.

It’s a fascinating look into the history of female serial killers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Abortion, Classism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Excrement, Gore, Abandonment, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Animal death