The Evil Within

Good book

A lot of books on the subject of killers are quite dumbed down. You finish a story thinking that the whole sorry episode hasn't been recounted fully. Not with this book though....oh no!Trevor Marriot, a retired Bedfordshire Police officer, who does the rounds of theatre's around the country talking about notorious villains, does not pull any punches. In fact, sometimes I had to take a deep breath before turning the pages, so graphic and horrifyingly detailed were the descriptions of the modus operandi of the hundreds of killers from across the globe that he tells us about. Many are still alive, incarcerated in prisons hopefully never to come out other than in a box.You can almost feel the fear and imagine the suffering the victims underwent before succumbing to death.You need a strong stomach to read some of these stories.

My husband said this was an enjoyable but gory read of serial killers in the world. Each section is dedicated to the area or America, UK, Germany etc and gives enough details about their crimes. Great for any true crime fans * Amazon has this listed as having 288 pages but it’s 429 pages ( just thought I’d let you know ) *

I had high hopes for this book, within a chapter they had all but disappeared. Much of the content appears to be reproductions of cases researched by other authors, poor fayre if I'm honest.

It reads almost as a list of who did what and when. I would have hoped for more background on the perpetrators of these crimes and some sort of insight as to what the motives were, if any.

I may be a little biased as I like the work of Trevor Marriott, But this is a great little book giving insights of the evil minds that committed some of the most gruesome crimes.