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Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe

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As I got older, my appetite for murder stories seemed to depend on how much turbulence was in my own life. The more sad or lost or angry I felt, the more I craved crime. — 3l

In US criminal law, crimes are considered offenses against the state, not against an individual. (This stems from our legal sysrem’s roots in English common law, which considered the king to be the ultimate victim of all lawbreaking.) 83