A review by mtmarriott
Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

The definitive book on the Wests as far as I’m concerned and maybe one of the best true crime books I’ve ever read. The way it conveys the mindsets of its intensely disturbed family is truly unsettling, I was aware of a lot of the details of what occurred but some truly caught me be horrified surprise and the almost familial way in which they’ve been conveyed is heartbreaking. Star ratings seem a bit irrelevant here.