tamsinsilva 's review for:

The Peepshow: The Murders at Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale

4.0

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This book was pitched to me as an incite into the victims of Reg Christie and having been a fan of Halle Ruebenholt’s the Five I thought it would be something similar in that it’s a contemporary author providing the maligned female victims a voice that they did not have when their murders were discovered. Instead this book is actually a detail of the coverage of the murders at 10 Rillington place and the media/ publics morbid fascination with Reg Christie. It does cover the moral and ethical dilemma that comes from true crime coverage, the various injustices that took place at the hands of the police and British criminal justice system and on the vulnerability of women- providing some of the reasons behind why a woman may have turned to sex work in the past. It was a well written, interesting book but if you’re looking for all the gorey details of the actual crime look elsewhere this book is not for that.