When a book has a name like this, you have to read it, right? Curiosity took the better of me and I picked it up. It is interesting but not so much. It is exactly what the sub title promises it to be. It captures the marriages several women and one man, who fell in love with murderers, mostly serial killers. All of these are true accounts and adequate sources have been cited to vouch for it. The accounts are factual probably because of the controversies surrounding them. Some of these involve celebrities. My chief curiosity was on what makes these women (and man) marry these murderers. If the stories were from India, I wouldn’t have been surprised if some of these were arranged marriages. Anything is possible here. But all the stories reported here were love marriages, many of which affairs flourished over letters. Some of these seemed marriages for money or convenience. Others, well, I guess they fell in love.

What I found intriguing was the writer’s lack of belief in reform of any of these. One of the convicts got out and pursued a successful career in art and had a long, happy marriage. But the writer I think does not believe in the possibility of reform.  Many of them have been declared psychopaths, sociopaths and the like. I couldn’t ascertain if anything has been done to address it. A trouble I have always had with the prison system. Finally, the writing is too factual and repetitive as most of the material is from secondary sources, most likely websites and newspapers. Where it is not factual, it is opinionated. Thus, the reading is not as enjoyable as I thought it would be.