Talking with Serial Killers: A chilling study of the world's most evil people

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I thought I would really enjoy this book as I love watching documentaries like this on TV, but it turns out I struggled to keep focus on this book and was easily distracted. First of all I feel like it hasn't been properly proof read before publishing, as there are some spelling errors/typos (actually loads) and sometimes the complete wrong word is used for example "she because a nuisance to her teachers" . the random male killers he'd add in just because he felt like it even though he's writing a book on FEMALE killers was fun

A lot of this is just men hating women, sexist remarks and the like, but I suppose should you really expect any less from serial killers? This is not to excuse the acts or to sympathize with the individuals mentioned in the books. However, it makes me question how someone so judgemental already decided on what they thought about these serial killers was able to get close to them, corresponded with them so many years before finally meeting them? Even though this book is titled as Talking with Serial Killers, the only talking done is by the author. Despite few quotes it does not introduce the perspective or narrative of the serial killer, rather it provides author's generic view and facts you can easily find on wikipedia. Meh. There are better books about serial killers, there are worse books about serial killers. Unless this is the first book you have ever read about killers, you won't learn much and there is some outright bad information in this book but it's too "meh" for me to give a crap. THE CONTENT: according to this book, a serial killer is one who kills three or more times with time between each "event". Some of the women talked about in this book don't even meet this definition. Some were just ONE OFF MURDERERS. I think the author included them because he thinks they would've gone on to become serial killers had they not been caught, but THAT ISN'T REALLY THE POINT OF THIS BOOK. IT ISN'T CALLED "TALKING TO ONE OFF FEMALE MURDERERS". The audiobook itself, which is how I read this book, is okay, although I wish it was done in more of the interview style rather than the narrator just reading off the conversation with the killer - this seems like it could have been possible as there is a section at the beginning of each chapter there is a recording of the killer themselves talking, which was very interesting to listen too - other than that, the audio book was fine, and the voices the narrator used for each of the serial killers were on the ok side to listen to as well.Heres what has me torn when thinking about this book. I enjoy reading about true crime and behavioural analysis of serial killers. The mind is an incredible thing so to think it can be so unhinged to drive a person to be like this is something I enjoy reading the how and why behind it. Although the book gives a lot of factual information and some conversations and quotes from the killers I felt it was quite disjointed. The author at times got his facts mixed up, there are grammar errors which were hard to ignore, on many occasions you get a statement from the author stating if it wasn’t for his interviews and the book certain facts about the murder cases would not have been resolved however when you look into these claims they are not entirely true. At least 20 of the female murderers mentioned in the book weren’t serial killers at all as they had only killed once or twice – compared to the at least three murders including cool down periods in-between needed to be officially classified as a serial killer. And personally, that wouldn’t really be a problem, had Berry-Dee not repeatedly forced the correct definition down our throats. Why even pretend that the book is specifically about female serial killers then? Why not just write one about female murderers in general? This is going to be a very long review, if you don't want to read it all, the summary of my thoughts are; An appalling look at women who kill, a very misleading title with an egotistical and misogynistic author. Do not read. It was very sad that they all seemed to have a terrible upbringing, there was definitely a pattern there. In the book is a paragraph written by Dr R Joseph a Psychotherapist, neuropsychologist and neuroscientist, his explanation about your childhood staying with you was very interesting. Like his other books, its littered with mentions of his previous books. But in this book he takes it a step further and proceeds to tell us where, when and by who the books have been published by.

However, for a book titled Talking With Serial Killers and subtitled A Chilling Study of the World's Most Evil People, I was disappointed that there was very little A) Talking with serial killers and B) Studying of their minds.Well written although I would advise a big trigger warning for horrific sexual and physical assault The killers' pursuit of horror and violence is described through the unique audiotape and videotape interviews which Berry-Dee conducted, deep inside the bowels of some of the world's toughest prisons. If you are a big true crime fan like myself, you will find this a fascinating read, but at the same time hard to swallow as it seems to be all about men killing women which is a difficult read for, well, a woman. The structure is also confusing at best, as there is very little distinction between fact, reliable confessions, and pure speculation. Similarly, the book itself is predominantly talking about the killers, rather than (as the title would suggest) talking with them. I feel as though this is unfortunate as the author clearly has an abundance of information through the interviews overall.