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Crimes of Passion: Love Kills
The consequences of CRIMES OF PASSION are captured in this chilling book, which documents over 100 criminals who killed for love. Each case is accompanied by authentic, crime-scene photographs and action shots from the trial.
There is a fine line between love and hate. From scorned mistresses to jealous husbands, uncover the irrational actions of people driven insane by passion.
There is a fine line between love and hate. From scorned mistresses to jealous husbands, uncover the irrational actions of people driven insane by passion.
224 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2015
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June 29, 2022
The improper use of grammar had me screaming
July 13, 2025
Sadly, I was not a fan. My problems were:
1) The tone of some of the commentary was very victim-blamey. I can think of at least 5 examples where I physically pulled back from the book and thought "Wow, really?!" at how the victims were discussed. Horrible romantic partners still don't deserve murder.
2) There were some strange formating choices, and duplicated text between summary and full description of the cases (3 times the three sentence summary was then used again to introduce the case).
3) For a book published in 2015, I don't understand why the newest reference was from 2008-2009? Felt extremely outdated.
4) For a subject matter that is so incredibly fascinating, this was incredibly boring. The cases got interesting the more detail we got on them. Short summaries of "he did X, his punishment was X" was so dull after 100 pages.
1) The tone of some of the commentary was very victim-blamey. I can think of at least 5 examples where I physically pulled back from the book and thought "Wow, really?!" at how the victims were discussed. Horrible romantic partners still don't deserve murder.
2) There were some strange formating choices, and duplicated text between summary and full description of the cases (3 times the three sentence summary was then used again to introduce the case).
3) For a book published in 2015, I don't understand why the newest reference was from 2008-2009? Felt extremely outdated.
4) For a subject matter that is so incredibly fascinating, this was incredibly boring. The cases got interesting the more detail we got on them. Short summaries of "he did X, his punishment was X" was so dull after 100 pages.
August 1, 2022
The book was interesting but there were just far too many grammatical errors
August 20, 2017
People are crazy . . . Just crazy! A very interesting book.
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