I couldn't sleep
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I read the book and to my surprise I was plagued with vivid dreams for weeks. The writing details the reality of the crimes, mixed with horrific love stories and the sheer brutality of the murders. I highly recommend it.
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Double Trouble
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There's a sick topicality to this book about the way murder isn't always a solitary vice: often it takes place in partnership, when a man and a woman come together and discover a shared taste for cruelty and death that they might never otherwise have acted out. Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were by far the most infamous examples, but they've been joined more recently by Fred and Rose West. Both cases are examined here ("Oh, Manchester, So Much to Answer For" and "The Banality of Evil") alongside other well-known and not so well-known cases from North America and Australia: the Lonely Hearts Killers, the Ken and Barbie Killers, the Sex-Slave Killers, and so on. The mix of authors makes for a good mix of styles and analysis and I certainly came away from the book with a better understanding of why couples sometimes kill....
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