J.L. Aarne's Reviews > The Human Predator: A Historical Chronicle of Serial Murder and Forensic Investigation

Many reviewers have already expressed what I thought of this book, so I'm glad it's not just me.

It started good, but it essentially went nowhere. I read about 2/3 of it in one go, but then I put it down and it wasn't that easy to pick back up and get into again because it becomes repetitive. The author clearly knows her subject well. I wish she had done more with it than basically list serial killers and their crimes for 286 pages. If there is a discussion or thesis going on anywhere in the book, it gets lost in the laundry list of murderers and victims, which makes it a disappointing read for me because there are a thousand books like that out there already and the synopsis of this one led me to believe that it wasn't like that.