ninamulligan 's review for:

Killings by Calvin Trillin

4.0

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Typical Trillin, which is a very, very good thing. Not your typical true crime book, though. Trillin is less interested in the salacious, gruesome aspects of the crimes than he is in the lives of the killers, victims, families, and communities affected by the crimes. I'm a little surprised that there's no follow-up reports on any of the crimes, since so many years have passed since initial publication, but with a little internet sleuthing you can turn up more fascinating information, particularly in the cases of Walter Bopp, Lorna Anderson, Susan Piasecny, and Lawrence Hartman.