Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer

31 reviews

elysenicole213's review against another edition

challenging dark funny informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, War, Suicide attempt, Infidelity, Trafficking, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Physical abuse

Minor: Colonisation, Gore, Animal death, Drug abuse, Abortion, Incest, Child death, and Blood

kaylajo3333's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Murder, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Child death, Sexual violence, Grief, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Torture, and Death

idun_aurora's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.0

As an introduction to female serial killers, this was very well done. I'm sure there is more to all the stories thta would warrant them entire books of their own (I think there is a book called The Angelmakers about the Nagyrev poisonings), but this book gives much depth and insight on the few pages reserved for each chapter. You can grab onto what interested you the most and dig deeper elsewhere! Great book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Abortion, Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Hate crime, Incest, Infidelity, Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, War, Confinement, Misogyny, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

rheagoveas's review

challenging dark funny informative sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, and Violence

sarahaf712's review

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Abortion, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Sexual violence

Minor: Incest

nonbinarian_librarian's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Pregnancy

rcsreads's review

dark informative medium-paced

2.5

There's a lot of speculation in this. In the case of Alice Kyteler in particular there's no proof she ever killed anyone. Several of the women didn't work alone but Telfer attributes all the murders to them when, again, there's no proof.
 For several of the murdresses I can just Google female serial killers and get more information than Telfer provides and frequently better writing. There's nothing on the Benders that I can't learn from Wikipedia and it has more detail and less of an obsession with how attractive Kate was.
 If you want an in depth look at which murdresses were the prettiest then this is the book for you. If you want actual facts then there are plenty of online articles and probably many better written books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Incest, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, and Violence

westeggspinster's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Suicide, Child abuse, and Alcoholism

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

5.0

I really enjoyed this book. I found it very informative and interesting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Child death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Incest

epeolatri's review against another edition

medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Death, Violence, Child death, and Sexism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, and Classism

Minor: Sexual content, Torture, Excrement, Rape, Suicide, Infidelity, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Incest