Richard Berrington

This is a new author to me and I was iffy on what to expect within these pages. I can tell you that I was pleasantly surprised. This is also a five book bundle, but the chapters are short and the author was able to squeeze everything into 208 pages.

All five books deal with all different kinds of killers that even date back to 1700 which I found interesting. I am not going to elaborate on all the details within these pages as with the stories being short there really isn't alot to tell you without giving away spoilers.

The most interesting book was the celebrities, but on a few of them I wouldn't even consider those people to even fall under the category of actual "killers". There were a couple of stories (which I won't name the celebrities) that I wouldn't even classify as those people being murderers! A couple of them were car accidents and people got killed. But to say that the celebrity had set out that day to have a car accident and kill someone is stretching it a bit. Accidents happen - people die in car accidents and like that saying goes: shit happens. No one can change what happens in the heat of a moment when you are in a car and things go awry.

There was another celebrity the author put in the book that really shouldn't even have graced these pages. That celebrity fought in WWII and did missions over Germany. War is war and fighting for your country is not considered murder. The celebrity was also in the Vietnam War as a pilot. I was very surprised that the author put that in there and the celebrity he named was a well known actor back in the 30's, 40's, 50's, and 60's.

That was my only complaint about the book as there are lines that need to be drawn of what is considered murderers and killers, but the celebrity book threw it all off. The rest of the books though were really good and some of the killers I hadn't heard of before. One of the books does have the well known killers as well like Bundy and Ridgeway are in these pages. So all in all with the different stories I would rate this book between 3.5 to 4 stars.
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