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Behold the Monster

Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

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Behold the Monster

By: Jillian Lauren, Michael Connelly - foreword
Narrated by: Nikki Zakocs
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'Fearless and fierce ... transcends a crime story to be a story that threatens social order' - Michael Connelly

'Bewitching . . . a tale of horror that is also humane and self-aware' - Jennifer Egan

'[Lauren] writes in film-noir ... American prose, so you feel you're in the seamy backstreets in the Rust Belt' - Daily Mail, Book of the Week

'Wildly original... true crime fans will find this a unique and disturbing thrill ride' - Publishers Weekly

'Blending gruesome forensic details with tender domestic moments . . . a panoramic tale of America's worst serial killer' - Daily Telegraph

'Chilling' - the Sun

Jillian Lauren set out to research a serial killer for a novel. Instead, she put one at the centre of her life.

Months of exchanging letters with Samuel Little in prison landed her a face-to-face meeting - and the trust of a monster. In the hours of harrowing interviews that followed, Little confessed to the murders of ninety-three women, making him America's most proli­fic serial killer. As the investigations escalated, the disturbing relationship took its toll on Lauren, both psychologically and legally - but she couldn't stop.

Conversations with a psychopath, intertwined with intensely personal experience and the stories of those killed told for the ­first time, result in an unforgettable true crime account. Behold the Monster is a journey into a mind and murderer that shocked the world, but one that ultimately lifts the lives of the victims with such grace that we cannot look away.©2023 Jillian Lauren (P)2023 Hachette Audio UK
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Majority of book feels like an X rated Mills & Boon, too much artistic license by the author. A momentary lapse in concentration while listening and you have no idea what is going on.

Hard to follow

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Audiobooks live and die by the quality of its narrator so this one died. Narrator was awful and made it very hard to follow. There was no way of knowing where conversations were happening as the same drab tone was carried throughout.

The manner of how the story was told was also very poor. Liberties were taken with artistic licence which made it more akin to a novel than true crime.

I couldn't finish the book.

Incredible story told very badly

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