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clockless's review
2.0
In some ways the book is more like an inefficient autobiography than a book about criminology. This goes into some detail about forensics, but it is an unfortunate amount; there is not enough science background to be useful to anyone who knows the topic, but more than anyone who isn't already deeply invested in it needs to know. If the crimes were presented differently, it would be good reading as a group of miniature mysteries, but the mysteriousness of each is sucked out quickly when he presents the conclusion upfront. Then there are the similarities between the cases, which I don't feel I need to get into in detail, but they suggest a deeper story here than the author is willing to investigate. Surely he chose the cases on purpose, but the repeated correspondences only elicit a couple of off-hand remarks. Meh.
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