Talking with Serial Killers: Stalkers – Christopher Berry-Dee 👀
Book 13 of 2021 📚
Overall Review: 8.5/10 ✨
Performance: 9/10 ✨
Story: 8.5/10 ✨
Graphicness: 8/10 ✨
Quick Review:
Another book by Christopher Berry-Dee, this time focusing on the hunting pattern of stalkers. Quite interesting to hear the lengths serial killers will go to to lure their victims into the trap.
Written on the Skin – Liz Porter 🧬
Book 12 of 2021 📚
Overall Review: 7.5/10 ✨
Story: 8/10 ✨
Performance: 7/10 ✨
Graphicness: 6/10 ✨
Detail: 8/10 ✨
Quick Review: Written on the Skin is a true crime multiple case overview from the forensic experts; the scientific analysis behind crime-solving.
The book goes into painstaking detail about DNA evidence in the late 80s and 90s, how maggots and larvae can reveal a time of death, and just how meticulous forensic experts have to be in their experiments.
I enjoyed the information overall, although felt the audiobook performance let it down a little as was very monotonous.
Talking with Serial Killers – Christopher Berry-Dee
Book 10 of 2021 📚
Overall Review: 8.5/10 ✨
Story: 8/10 ✨
Performance: 8.5/10 ✨
Graphicness: 9/10 ✨
⚠️ Please do not read this book if you are sensitive to topics on or surrounding child abuse, rape, murder, crime, or traumatic experiences. ⚠️
Quick Review:
This is my second read by Christopher Berry-Dee, but he has been mentioned in a few other true crime novels, which makes me question how reliable he is as a storyteller. (Sources suggest that he claimed to know who the Babes in the Wood Killer was all along, but never made the information public.)
It’s a good read, quite graphic, and like all of his books; boastful almost to the point of distraction. But detailed all the same.
A Shrink in the Clink – Tim Watson-Munro 📚
Book 8 of 2021 📖🗝
Overall Review: 9/10
Story: 9:10
Performance: 9/10
Would recommend?: Definitely, if you are interested in the psychology behind crimes. Fairly graphic.
WARNING ⚠️ Would not recommend for anyone who has been a victim of trauma, sexual or physical abuse, related to the 9/11 cases, or sensitive to gory details of murder.
A few months ago, I realised a collection of essays and posts in the form of an e-book called “Writers Are People Too”. I have now come to realise that whilst the individual pieces may stand on their own merit, my readers don’t always appreciate my non-fiction work. And to be perfectly honest with you – it was rubbish!
With that in mind, I am actually removing Writers Are People Too from Amazon and distributing the articles on the internet.
If you would like to see any of my books, you can click here to be taken to my Amazon Page.
Writers Are People Too is now out on Kindle – only 89p!
Click here to be taken to the e-book page.
Blurb:
Writers are people too! They have every day lives as well as their writing careers. This collection contains articles and poetry about writers lives, the words, the everyday and the normal.
It also includes tips for writers such as: How To Edit Your Novel and How To Be a Professional Writer.
Info:
Are you on Readwave – because I am: http://www.readwave.com/melissaholden94/
Readwave is a great place to share your work, fiction or non-fiction. There is also a particular interest in six-word-stories.
Not only am I a writer on Readwave, but I am also a Theme Owner for Career, and a Theme Editor for Career, The Modern World, Life Lessons, Animation and Youth Be Heard.
Please take a minute to check out some of my exclusive-to-Readwave articles and show your support towards my non-fiction work. 
I’m working on a collection of articles and poetry called Writers Are People Too, and I’m pretty excited.
After I postponed Searching For Katherine, I decided the best way to take a step back from the novel was to take a break from fiction for a while. And so, I am spending my summer writing articles and poetry, and exploring my recently developed strong-arm that is the world of non-fiction.
Writers Are People Too is pretty self-explanatory: it’s about how writers have lives outside of their writing careers. Many of us have dipped a toe into sharing this with the world via life-blogs (mine’s called The Life Of A 19-Year-Old Author) and it’s been pretty successful.
The non-fiction eBook will cover everything from society to personal relationships to how we live our day-to-day lives.
Writers Are People Too is humourous, but ultimately true. It’s written by a writer, about writers, for writers – and the general public. I won’t be spilling any trade secrets, but giving the world a chance to remember that writers are people too.
If you can think of anything that you think should be included, comment below, or Tweet Me @melissaholden94
Melissa Holden, Writer 