There Was an Old Woman

Nursery Crimes

by Eric Weiner

When a serial murderer starts killing young women from Barnard College, a female student becomes deeply involved in the case. Working with a federal agent she finds herself face to face with the killer and realizes she may be in much more trouble than she anticipated.

Genres: Horror, Young Adult

260 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1995

Reviews

[Paul Kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a mystery book, it was annoying. The characters keep blaming one lady and when that lady isn't the killer. They then accused another until they're wrong and so on. That was their investigation for the first few page and it got annoying. There were a few interesting mystery twists that did keep me interested in the mystery. However, characters make stupid decisions that pretty much endanger their lives so that also lessens the mystery aspect.

I will say that the book has moments of suspense and the twist at the end was pretty unexpected. The main character was... not my favorite. She's that character that makes stupid decisions and she's the weaker character, who wimpers and jump every page. Still, I do feel a little sorry for her due to these characteristics and her background but not my favorite character archetypes.

Maybe read this if you want to gritty college student's life with basic reading level?

[Nattie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book, but I find that the Nursery crimes series more often than not gives the story away either with the cover or some things in the book. I don't like figuring something major out before I even read the book or less than 50 pages in.

As usual, the main character, is an idiot who seems to do things that are questionable. Ellie claims she doesn't want to get killed, but I sure couldn't tell by her actions.

There was a nice twist in the story.

[Debra]

This was definitely the weakest of the 'Nursery Crimes' books. There wasn't a single character that acted how a real person would act. That's probably why I have stronger memories about reading the other two books in the series when I was younger.