Women Who Love Men Who Kill
35 True Stories of Prison Passion, The 21st Century Edition, Updated with New Cases

So finally I find a serious book on women who fall in love and marry men already in jail for murder, one that offers some actual investigation into the subject, with interviews with the women themselves and consultations with psychologists and psychiatrists, and I find the Goodreads and Amazon ratin......more

Although I found parts of this book to be repetitive, the author does give a good description of the type of woman who would be attracted to a murderer in prison. It is hard for most of us to understand what would drive a woman to correspond, visit, and sometimes marry a man in prison for life (or o......more

This book basically boils down to 'these women are damaged.' Saved you about two hundred pages. One thing I really struggled with was the fake objectivity. It grinds my nerves whenever journalists take the stance of objectivity in their work when it's (a) clearly not objective and (b) true objectivit......more

This book is full of good information but it's structured poorly. Each chapter features the story of a woman who has married or fallen in love with a convicted murderer. Instead of sticking to one woman/story/theme per chapter, the author jumps around all over the place. She also uses troubling term......more

This book covers phenomenon of women who form romantic relationships with incarcerated men, particularly those convicted of heinous crimes. The author's exploration centers on the website WriteAPrisoner.com, serving as a focal point for examining this complex issue. While the premise initially intrig......more