Holy Homicide: An Encyclopedia of Those Who Go With Their God & Kill

by Michael Newton

Human beings kill one another for all sorts of reasons, but none are stranger or more incomprehensible than religion Homicide: An Encyclopedia of Thom Who Go With Their God...And Kill is a lexicon of murders attributed to instructions from deifies, whether committed by unstable loners, organizations, or armies. As demonstrated by the atrocities enumerated with in this book's pages, religion is among the oldest, most persistent motives for murder throughout human history. Millions, perhaps billions, of victims have suffered and died throughout the ages, all in the name of one god or another.

Genres: Crime

Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.

From Wikipedia:
"Michael Newton (born 1951) is an American author best known for his work on Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan series. Newton first began work on the Executioner series by co-writing "The Executioner's War Book" with Don Pendleton in 1977. Since then he has been a steady writer for the series with almost 90 entries to his credit, which triples the amount written by creator Don Pendleton. His skills and knowledge of the series have allowed him to be picked by the publishers to write the milestone novels such as #100, #200, and #300.

Writing under the pseudonym Lyle Brandt, Michael Newton has also become a popular writer of Western novels. He has written a number of successful non-fiction titles as well, including a book on genre writing (How to Write Action Adventure Novels). His book Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida won the Florida Historical Society's 2002 Rembert Patrick Award for Best Book in Florida History. Newton's "Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology" won the American Library Association's award for Outstanding Reference Work in 2006."

Pen names: Lyle Brandt, Don Pendleton, Jack Buchanan

Bibiliography available here.

Reviews

[Janice Workman · Rating 2 out of 5]

It is an encyclopedia - It reads like that. From the information it was written as nonfiction. I don't know why I thought there would be more of a story to it, that was not part of the description. No group or persons that kill or killed others in the name of God or whomever they worship was left out, that I could see. Imagine there were, as many included were not on my radar. I tired of it after reading bits each day. It was organized, and author did not claim it to be something it wasn't. I skimmed through the last 20 pages and passed it on to another. Others may find it is what they are looking for.