I really enjoyed this exploration through women’s roles in crime: victim, aggressor, observer, enabler. I like the portrayal of the way society fears and seeks to confine strong, bold, inaccessible women. Though I find the promulgated idea of “genius” male serial killers tired and overused, it was nice to see a woman in this role. Still, do we really need to keep attributing genius to trauma?

I don’t know how I feel about the ghost element of this story, it felt a bit like a vehicle for information that the author didn’t know how to share otherwise. It did make for some heart-racing moments.