Lindberg, an accomplished local historian and true crime writer, presents a fascinating story of two contemporaneous serial killers, both weaving marriage and murder in and around Chicago during the 1890s and 1900s. Johann Hoch was a debonair bigamist and wife killer who boasted of having perfected a \u201cscientific technique\u201d to romance and seduction. Belle Gunness was a nesting \u201cBlack Widow\u201d whose sprawling farm in Northwest Indiana...