Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

by Rachel Monroe

Book Overview

A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four archetypes--Detective, Victim, Defender, Killer--to four true stories about women driven by obsession.

In this illuminating exploration of women, violence, and obsession, Rachel Monroe interrogates the appeal of true crime through four narratives of fixation. In the 1940s, a frustrated heiress began creating dollhouse crime scenes depicting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501188887
• ISBN13: 9781501188886
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"