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KILLERS IN COLD BLOOD looks at the dark side of the criminal mind. These are the men and women who commit heinous acts with a gruesome disregard for human life. They do not conform to what society considers to be 'normal' standards, they seem to act purely for self-gratification in their own little worlds of perversion. The difficulty in bringing these monsters to justice is proving whether they are just bad or mad, whether in fact the individual is mentally ill or whether they are fully aware of what they have done. Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer are examples of men who killed in cold blood. They knew exactly what they were doing, they knew right from wrong, and yet they still committed their crimes.
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Gerard Cheshire has a wealth of experience as a freelance writer and editor of non-fiction books in the fields of history and general reference.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I received this book for a Christmas present and was very surprised when it gave me so much information about serial killers and murderers, more information than books in the past have. The book includes pictures and is very easy to read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
I like true crime and thought I would love this book, I have never been so annoyed and upset at a book in years, some of the basic facts for the crime in the past was wrong, and not just a little bit. When it got to more recent crime the lack of research and fact checking just got worse. When talking of things that happened in my own memory it was as if they had got their facts from the cheap tabloids, full of sensation and contradictory facts! Some was so wrong I couldn't read on. This has the distinction of being the only book I have ever deleted from my kindle library. It wasn't even a good example of bad writing/research and changed voice so often that even if you liked it the next chapter would be different. I so wanted to enjoy it but the problems were just too numerous.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Good for a quick read
19 Nov 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I found this an enjoyable mini history of some of the world's cold-blooded killers, (I won't waffle about the errors), I found it an enjoyable in that the stories were generally short enough that I was able to read the whole write-up on a person when I had a spare five minutes.
The book is broken down into seven sections which if you study history and/or read a fair amount of true crime you could guess at some of the persons that would be included (Hitler, Stalin, etc).
PART ONE: ANCIENT MURDERERS - includes the histories of Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Vlad the Impaler,
PART TWO: TYRANTS AND DESPOTS - Mao Zedong, Augusto Pinochet, Ho Chi Minh, `Tito'
PART THREE: COLD-BLOODED WOMEN - Elizabeth Bathory, Lizzie Borden,
PART FOUR: VICTIMS OF ASSASSINATION - Abraham Lincoln, John Lennon, Jill Dando,
PART FIVE: ATROCITIES - The Rape of Nanking, Genocide in Rwanda,
PART SIX: ORGANISATIONS - The Mafia, The Yakuza, The Triads and The Baybasin Cartel.
PART SEVEN: COLD-BLOODED MEN - Richard Kulinski the Mafia Iceman, Bianchi and Buono the Hillside Stranglers and Kenneth Allen McDuff: The Broomstick Killer.
All in all, there are about 60 or so people included in this book and I think I recognized about 60-70 percent of the names but that is mostly thanks to my True Crime magazines and history studies at school.
For the ardent true crime/history buff this most likely will disappoint and I doubt that it would provide any new information, but I think casual fans like myself might enjoy it. Fortunately Amazon provides the "look inside" option on this book and I would recommend you use this - that way you can see the full list of persons featured in each Part - and thus see if there is anyone you haven't heard much about, as well as read the first story or two to see if you like the style and the information it provides.
Hope this helps.
The book is broken down into seven sections which if you study history and/or read a fair amount of true crime you could guess at some of the persons that would be included (Hitler, Stalin, etc).
PART ONE: ANCIENT MURDERERS - includes the histories of Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Vlad the Impaler,
PART TWO: TYRANTS AND DESPOTS - Mao Zedong, Augusto Pinochet, Ho Chi Minh, `Tito'
PART THREE: COLD-BLOODED WOMEN - Elizabeth Bathory, Lizzie Borden,
PART FOUR: VICTIMS OF ASSASSINATION - Abraham Lincoln, John Lennon, Jill Dando,
PART FIVE: ATROCITIES - The Rape of Nanking, Genocide in Rwanda,
PART SIX: ORGANISATIONS - The Mafia, The Yakuza, The Triads and The Baybasin Cartel.
PART SEVEN: COLD-BLOODED MEN - Richard Kulinski the Mafia Iceman, Bianchi and Buono the Hillside Stranglers and Kenneth Allen McDuff: The Broomstick Killer.
All in all, there are about 60 or so people included in this book and I think I recognized about 60-70 percent of the names but that is mostly thanks to my True Crime magazines and history studies at school.
For the ardent true crime/history buff this most likely will disappoint and I doubt that it would provide any new information, but I think casual fans like myself might enjoy it. Fortunately Amazon provides the "look inside" option on this book and I would recommend you use this - that way you can see the full list of persons featured in each Part - and thus see if there is anyone you haven't heard much about, as well as read the first story or two to see if you like the style and the information it provides.
Hope this helps.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
WRONG
21 Oct 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book is full of very wrong "facts". Huge HUGE errors, such as the killer's name( Richard Ramirez is labeled Richard Chase)and many many MANY minor errors. I regret buying this book and will not purchase anything by this author again, and I want to find a way to get a refund because there are so many errors.
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