Tori Telfer
Auteur de Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
A propos de l'auteur
Tori Telfer is the author of Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History and the host of the podcasts Criminal Broads, Why Women Kill: Truth, Lies, and Labels (CBS All Access), and Red Flags (Investigation Discovery). She lives in New York City with her husband and son.
Œuvres de Tori Telfer
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion (2021) 127 exemplaires
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- female
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Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History par Tori Telfer
A quick, engaging, and wide ranging account of some lesser known female serial killers. Chapters don't seem to be organized chronologically or geographically but this only seems to add to the conversational, intimately readable account from an author who clearly has a mastery of her material.
An interesting book on women grifters, swindlers , etc. Goes all the way back to 1700's. The author has a very unique writing style that I like.
This was a fun book! It was easy to read and fascinating, spooky and unsettling at the same time. The scariest parts in this book to me were the sections on Erzsébet Báthory with her crazy inventiveness to torture and Mary Ann Cotton with her merciless killing of her 11 kids, and all of it was done in a nice form. I think the only thing that bothered me with the book was the repetition of how a story was laid out: in media res, background, killing, public response, conviction, summary, next story. It lent itself to easy reading but was repetitive after awhile, unfortunately.… (plus d'informations)
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