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The Best New True Crime Stories
- Serial Killers
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan, Traber Burns
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Publisher's Summary
A serial killer - your neighbor, friend, even your spouse?
Serial killers: Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer are often the first names that spring to mind. Many people assume serial killers are primarily an American phenomenon that came about in the latter part of the 20th century. But such assumptions are far from the truth. Serial killers have been around for a very long time and can be found in every corner of the globe - and they're not just limited to the male gender either. Some of these predators have been caught and brought to justice whereas others have never been found, let alone identified. Serial killers can be anywhere. And scarier still, they can be anyone.
Edited by acclaimed author and anthologist Mitzi Szereto, The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers reveals all-new accounts of true crime serial killers from the contemporary to the historic. The international list of contributors includes award-winning crime writers, true-crime podcasters, journalists, and experts in the dark crimes field such as Martin Edwards, Lee Mellor, Danuta Kot, Craig Pittman, Richard O. Jones, Marccie Rendon, Mike Browne, and Vicki Hendricks.
If you are a fan of true crime books such as I'll Be Gone in the Dark, Mindhunter, The Devil in the White City, or Peter Vronsky's Sons of Cain; you will want to listen to Mitzi Szereto's The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers. This book will leave you wondering if it's ever really possible to know who's behind the mask you're allowed to see.
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- Langer MD
- 2022-02-18
A (Mostly) Solid No-Nonsense Collection
It would be a fair accusation to call many of the offerings in this compendium "superficial" (with a couple of notable exceptions: the Fred & Rose West case and Dr Harold Shipman's murders, for example). Most of the individual descriptions of psychopathological development, crimes, capture, and conviction are 30 minutes to an hour long. Within those constraints, listeners are largely given a survey of lesser-known criminals and crimes.
The advantage to the format is that we are simply given the facts and trusted to come to our own conclusions.
The disadvantage is that there is no opportunity to really explore the personalities and events involved in each narrative.
[NOTE: Oddly, a couple of the segments included in the compendium are actually quasi-fictional. It gets moderately annoying to wonder what, exactly, the next chapter is going to bring: Familiar true crime or artistic license?]
The narration is similarly hit & miss. Kate Mulligan is an "adequate" reader: exhibiting impressive cadence, timbre, and tone - but overenunciating and reading much too slowly. Traber Burns, on the other hand, is outstanding. After listening to this, I would consider listening to an audiobook just because Mr. Burns was attached to the project.
To be honest, a couple of the chapters in this book - ostensibly dealing with real-life Serial Killers - are straight-up confusing. Most provide straightforward facts.. but as mentioned, a few are heavily-dramatized portrayals of what a semi-hypothetical Serial Killer "might" experience or accounts from witnesses & reporters and their experiences.
Taken altogether, I rate 'The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers' 7.5 stars out of 10. If you can get it for free (as I did as part of the 'Plus' catalogue), it's a great way to spend a couple of snowy afternoons. If they ask for money, however, consider carefully: I guarantee there will be parts of the book that will confuse you - if you think you might have trouble getting past the inconsistencies (you *will* ask yourself "What does this have to do with True Crime?").. save your money.
ATTN PRODUCERS: A Navigable Menu listing the contributions (or an Appended PDF) would improve this audiobook markedly
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