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Review: Michaud & Price, The Devil's Right Hand Man
The Devil's Right-Hand Man: The True Story of Serial Killer Robert Charles Browne by Stephen G. MichaudMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I wanted this book to be a lot better than it was.
And it wasn't BAD. It was an interesting book about the way a volunteer cold case squad in Colorado Springs coaxed serial killer Robert Charles Browne in helping them to solve one of his early murders that had only been classed as a missing persons case.
But it doesn't feel finished. Not just because there are dozens of other murders Browne claims to have committed, but because Michaud & Price published their book while several of these murders were waiting on DNA evidence. I know with the laboratory backlog, an author CAN'T wait for all the DNA to come in, but it makes this book feel rushed. Like there's some invisible deadline Michaud & Price felt they had to meet.
(I know another book about Browne just came out, Hello Charlie, but this is TEN YEARS LATER. Who the heck were Michaud & Price trying to scoop?)
So it feels rushed and superficial, like a bad documentary. (I just watched a bad History Channel documentary about the Zodiac Killer, so the comparison is easy to make.) I feel as if there's a lot more work Michaud & Price could have done, more questions they could have asked. Honestly, the sharpest and most incisive thing about this book is its title, and that's a quote from one of Browne's ex-wives.
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