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Wow! This book had to be true, because you couldn't even make this stuff up. The Italian government's investigation into the Monster of Florence case was unreal! What a bunch of stupid idiots. But that's giving them too much credit. They weren't stupid - they were malicious and only out to save face. When their theories didn't pan out, they stopped at nothing to make them work.
The beginning of the story was actually about the serial killer who terroized Florence in the 70s and 80s, but the rest ...more
The beginning of the story was actually about the serial killer who terroized Florence in the 70s and 80s, but the rest ...more
Wanted to like it more than I did. Found it unputdownable through the first third or so. Then I got a bit bogged down. However, I appreciate what Preston does here: tries to instill not only the horror of the Monster's crimes, but the "horror" of how the Italian legal system handled the case. That was very disturbing, indeed. This book is part true-crime, part political corruption. What is frustrating for the reader is probably also even more frustrating for the authors: that in the end, the ide
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