Despite the title of the book and the publisher's blurb this felt like it was all information I could have gleaned for myself with just a bit of online searching and a dose of patience. I'm not too sure about the veracity of the author's claims that he was in personal contact with each and every one of these people as there doesn't appear to be anything in the book that feels like it is new information. Now, that's not to say I didn't enjoy the read because I did - very much. The book tends to cover the backstory of the Killers that are included and that is the information I am interested in. I am less interested in the when and how than in the why. The nearest we can get to answers on the Why question is by looking at the upbringing of the person and how their behaviour was growing up. Because that is what interests me, I enjoyed this book. It also helps that it covered cases I was completely unaware of so this likelyy made it much more interesting for me. The full list of the killers covered is: Michael Bruce Ross Ronald Joseph "Butch" Defeo Aileen Carol Wuornos Kenneth Allen McDuff Douglas Daniel Clark and Carol May Bundy Henry Lee Lucas Of these I had only heard of Defeo and Wuornos at the time of reading. As these things go I then saw documentaries online about a couple of the other people/cases and if we're being honest they probably gave me more information that this supposed expose. Yes, I am sticking with my initial 4 Star review on this because I really did enjoy this read and it did give me information I did not have at the time of reading. This review has been a long time coming. I actually read this book between the 22nd and 25th May 2020 so my memory is a bit foggy about all the plot lines. Fortunately, I have a notebook where I jot some initial thoughts on the book and an overall ranking so between the book blurb and that I did have a reasonable handle on what I thought at the time of reading.

I really enjoyed this book, it goes in depth about the serial killer and their crimes and their early life and creates a detailed story of who they actually are, however, no interviewing really happens at all! He only properly interviewed one of the serial killers. Like I said, still an amazing book, but if you already know the stories of these serial killers (which I did not), you may want to pass on this book!

There are some phenomenal insights and quotes within this book. Some accounts are simply evil and others are utterly fascinating. Worth your time!

Although interesting the book did not go into as much detail as I thought it would and by the end I was finding it quite repetitive and felt as if not that much new or interesting information was emerging.

Grammatical, punctuation and spelling mistakes aside (of which there are many), this book is grossly mis-titled. There is minimal input from the killers themselves and 95% of this book could have been written by simply copying & pasting from the killers wikipedia pages. There is no linear flow, dates and times are jumbled and I found myself regularly having to go back to the beginning of a chapter to try and keep a correct timeline. The author goes on about how extensively he has researched all his subjects but this is in no way evident in the content. Insights are VERY few and far between and the author seems more intent on bragging how he got things from the killers that they had never told anyone else (largely because these nuggets are predominantly boring or obvious lies that no one else would WANT to know). The author's smug, self aggrandising writing style also becomes VERY annoying, VERY quickly. I bought this book (by accident I might add) to get insights from the killers themselves, not the opinions of the glib author but, as I say, any insights from the killers themselves are so few and far between that the author should be sued under the trades description act for calling the book what he did. Apparently there's a sequel book by the same author. I wont bother with that