The World's Worst Crimes: An A-Z of Evil Deeds

by Charlotte Greig

The World's Worst Crimes takes you deep into the disturbing world of psychopaths, career criminals, and serial killers. From the Woman in the Box and the Online Murderer to the Dusseldorf Vampire and the House of Horror, this book delves into every major category of crime, sifting through the evidence to present a grisly, compelling, and blood-spattered history of the worst crimes ever committed.

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime, Crime

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Sjoerd · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wikipedia information dump. Not that nicely written. For people with a short attention span. Missed some of the worst crimes I know of.

But a good read on a vacation.

[Teagan (Chaoteac) · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think this is a good book in that it can direct someone who is interested in true crime but knows little about it, towards a path of understanding what type of true crime interests them. Whether they prefer gang crime, cults, or just serial killers. This book is a solid start, but isn't incredibly informative when it comes to each case it details, and in fact with some cases there is misinformation. If someone were interested in any particular case, they'd be better off reading the beginning of the case in this book and then finding other books to go into further more accurate detail, as unfortunately this book struggles to accurately inform the reader of more of the finer details of the crime. This book is more like small Tumblr posts on each killer, with none of the information cited.

The writing felt careless at times - like a student trying to reach a wordcount for an overdue assignment at 3am, when they just want to go to bed. It just got slapped together and published.

All in all, I can see why this book was reduced in price ($19.95 down to $9.99) - and it seems I know about majority of the interesting cases anyway.

[––––•(-•The Insomniac Book Hoarder•-]

How do you rate a book based solely on compilations of grizzly and gruesome crimes done by human beings? Do you go by shock factor, interesting and gory details or do you go by pacing. Nonetheless, this book was definitely an interesting albeit disturbing read. A common theme in a lot of the stories is definitely corruption, traumatic and toxic parenting, sometimes bad police work (letting criminals go, despite getting a confession from a victim) and repressed and traumatic childhood. There is definitely a lot to unpack for psychologist. Heres to me hoping that we have progressed, but I doubt it; criminals are smarter and more cunning. Pretty sure a lot of crimes that go unpunished are done by powerful people (I aint no anarchist, but I said what I said).

[Madeline · Rating 3 out of 5]

a simply put alphabetical order of information about some of the most notorious crimes and criminals in history. it was interesting to get little tidbits of information from each short section. my only complaint is that I think I caught a few spelling errors but I'm not 100% certain

[chaz · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading about the different cases, but I feel the author could use another set of eyes on the prose before publishing. There were a few grammatical mistakes. Some made me go back and have to read a sentence a few times to understand what it said. Other than the poor editing, it was an alright book.

[Rachel Newlin · Rating 2 out of 5]

An interesting book with lots of information about various crimes. However, there are a LOT of typos and misinformation. The Richard Ramirez section in particular had lots of incorrect details.

[Beatriz Luís · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'd rather have fewer stories and a good amount of information about them than this shit. It sucked.

[Betty Stoneking · Rating 5 out of 5]

it was really neat to read

[Lilia Reads · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love learning about true crime. It’s very interesting to me and I’m interested in why murderers do the things they do. I think this book was a good book to learn a lot about true crime.

[Shabsough Mrs · Rating 2 out of 5]

الكتاب تجميع قصص قاتلين متسلسلين ، بس المحتوى قصير كتير و غير منظم ، و بعض القصص مو محرزة تنذكر في الكتاب 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Suzanne Pijnenburg · Rating 2 out of 5]

Entertaining for sure, but not sure whether all said is true. Also, some expected stories are missing in this book.

[Abigail Miller · Rating 2 out of 5]

The language is at times incredibly disrespectful

[Tonya · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book had a diverse selection of murders and other criminals.

[Jaci Brannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick read with the basic facts of what happened with the situations

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good compilation of crimes and I liked how it wasn't only about the most well known cases and that there were some lesser known ones put in there to learn about.

Overall this is a good, fast read and gets the point across well with a decent font size and layout.

I also liked having the pictures included to sneak a peak at every so often as I read.

[Charlotte · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting book, with some very intriguing cases.
Some of the writing was a bit blocky and waffly, and towards the ends, proof reading was failing, but on the whole, I enjoyed this,

[Billi · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found the book intriguing, but the typos were excessive and some of the facts did not coincide with other accounts I have read. All in all an interesting book.

[Carrie · Rating 3 out of 5]

So creepy but amazing if you're bored at an airport or... In china