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Influencers Who Kill: A True Crime Collection: Real Stories of Online Fame and Fatal Consequences
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Expected 3 Feb 26384 pages, Paperback
Expected publication February 3, 2026
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January 21, 2026
This is a quick, true crime collection of stories.
None of the influencers were people I’ve heard of.
If you enjoy true crime and don’t mind less publicized stories, you might like this one.
Thank you NetGalley for the audiobook.
None of the influencers were people I’ve heard of.
If you enjoy true crime and don’t mind less publicized stories, you might like this one.
Thank you NetGalley for the audiobook.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
Thank you to Netgalley for an early copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I came into this with high hopes and I'm sorry to say that this missed the mark.
If you're a fan of true-crime podcasts as told from the likes of Eleanor Neale vs. JCS, I can definitely see this book being up your alley. 'Influencers who Kill' presents several, quite niche [said as someone who has quite an encyclopedia of lesser known crime knowledge] in bite-sized chunks. While calling half the people here 'influencers' is a bit of a stretch given most of them barely scrape over a few hundred followers, it was a fairly interesting look into parasocial relationships and the influence of a following.
The pacing of this made it an easy background listen and it was easy to pick up and put back down without losing your place. I agree with other reviewers that this felt like an amalgamation of articles, but I don't say that to the detriment of the book.
As I mentioned I'm a quite big fan of true crime, so I expected to really enjoy this. But unfortunately the tone and pacing that I'm sure would make other readers really eat this up, is exactly where I struggled. One 'influencer' is described as putting up a 'tizzy' shortly before their crime spree, the narrator affects accents and silly voices depending on the dialogue she's reading. This in combination with, in my opinion, more effort being made to humanise the criminal than the victim in several places bordered on offensive in parts.
While I appreciate this book needs to be entertaining, but I felt entertainment value here came at the cost of the victims.
I came into this with high hopes and I'm sorry to say that this missed the mark.
If you're a fan of true-crime podcasts as told from the likes of Eleanor Neale vs. JCS, I can definitely see this book being up your alley. 'Influencers who Kill' presents several, quite niche [said as someone who has quite an encyclopedia of lesser known crime knowledge] in bite-sized chunks. While calling half the people here 'influencers' is a bit of a stretch given most of them barely scrape over a few hundred followers, it was a fairly interesting look into parasocial relationships and the influence of a following.
The pacing of this made it an easy background listen and it was easy to pick up and put back down without losing your place. I agree with other reviewers that this felt like an amalgamation of articles, but I don't say that to the detriment of the book.
As I mentioned I'm a quite big fan of true crime, so I expected to really enjoy this. But unfortunately the tone and pacing that I'm sure would make other readers really eat this up, is exactly where I struggled. One 'influencer' is described as putting up a 'tizzy' shortly before their crime spree, the narrator affects accents and silly voices depending on the dialogue she's reading. This in combination with, in my opinion, more effort being made to humanise the criminal than the victim in several places bordered on offensive in parts.
While I appreciate this book needs to be entertaining, but I felt entertainment value here came at the cost of the victims.
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