Earle Leonard Nelson may well have been America’s first serial killer. In the winter of 1926, he began a string of murders that spanned the U.S. and Canada, horrifying and confounding both the public and the police. Bestial tells the story of Nelson’s life-from his bizarre childhood to his ignoble end-sparing no graphic detail in the process. If there is an answer to the question of why this man murdered, it is in this book somewhere. Everything about Nelson seems bizarre, from his family to his eating habits to his religious obsessions. But strangest of all was his compulsion to kill—for no imaginable reason. He killed women of all ages, from all walks of life, seemingly with no remorse.
Bestial reads like fast-paced fiction, complete with action, plot twists, suspense, and eerie foreshadowing. The book is compelling and elegantly written, and the story provides chilling insights into the motivations of a man who killed for killing’s sake.

Finished reading this book last night. As always Mister Schechter makes this period alive for you. He kept me interested from page 1 till the last.

I have read a lot of books by this author now. Only one was very disappointing, (Fatal) but all the others, like Deranged, Deviant Depraved were great.
Now I need to get my hands on Fiend

Book Description
Sharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise. But her murderous, fugitive father had drawn her into a lifetime of deception that became one of the most baffling cases in the annals of American crime

This was such a sad story . it grabbed me from page 1.
It is sad they still don’t know who Sharon really was. Where her real parents are , what happened.
I hope that one day this will be solved.

I really want to read this book. Yesterday I tried reading it again. The problem for me is that this case is still not solved.
I checked internet last night but it seems nothing has changed.

The fact is I cannot enjoy a true crime book like this where the murderer gets away. It does look like a good read though.
So I will save this for another day and cross my fingers for the families of the victims that one day they will catch the serial killer.

This is the Dutch translation of Courtisan.
When i accepted this in a ring (bookcrossing) I did not know it was translated. I prefer reading in. English.
well we will see.

Some time later:
Well I tried but I can’t manage reading this. I wonder if the English book is any better. Is it because of the translation that I can’t stomach this?
I give up.

I was a bit disappointed. I bought this because it had 4.5 stars on amazon (7 reviews) but it was not near as good as they said it would be.

Very repetitive, when you complete this book you still don’t have a clue about the killer, how he murdered the girls, what happened to him after he got caught.

wishy washy

Callahan, a marine architect, lost his boat in a storm off the Canary Islands while engaged in a singlehanded race across the Atlantic in 1981. Luckily, he carried far more than the basic emergency equipment required, e.g., a six-person raft. Before sinking he was able to recover his emergency equipment bag and his life raft. Callahan admits to having read the survival accounts of Maurice and Maralyn Bailey ( Staying Alive , 1974) and Dougal Robertson ( Survive the Savage Sea , 1973) and even had the latter’s manual Sea Survival (1975) with him in the raft. What makes his story different was his lack of a companion. Through his own ingenuity he learned how to spear fish, fix his solar still, and even repair his holed raft. This is a real human drama that delves deeply into a man’s survival instincts. It should be read by anyone venturing offshore in a small boat.

Finished reading this last night. Once you start reading you cannot stop.
I love the drawings, those help you to understand all the problems he had to face. This guy is so inventive it is unbelievable. He never gave up. How he had to struggle, just to keep the raft afloat, to get a little bit of water, and to kill the fish who always swam with him and he looked upon them as his only companions. The sea water that tortured his skin but he did not give up. He kept fighting. Amazing!!
Highly recommend

A marriage made in hell…

Barely five feet tall and innocent looking, Charlene Gallego used all of her charms to entice pretty young schoolgirls into the back of a van, where her husband, Gerald, lay waiting.

A killer couple bound together…

Married six times and still in his early thirties, Gerald Gallego found his perfect companion in Charlene. Over a grisly period of twenty-six months, their bloody rampage spanned three states and claimed eleven lives.

By kidnap, rape, and murder…

In the bizarre tale of domination, depraved lust, and murder, R. Barri Flowers tells the whole story a couple’s twisted relationship, their ghastly crimes and capture, and the trial that ultimately pitted wife against husband.

(I wrote a review on amazon years ago about this book when I was just starting to read English books. I gave it 2 stars. 9 out of 12 people thought my review was useful) I am proud lol

Writer has to much his own opinion
I am sorry i bought this book cause i don’t think this is a very good one.
Irritated and annoyance was what I felt because of the writer constantly finding excuses for the wife of Gallego.
It made me really angry.
She, Charlene Gallego lured the innocent victims in a trap,(in the back of a van,asking them if they wanna smoke some marijuana) knowing what her husband was planning to do to them. and Mr Flowers is writing how guilty she felt and that she could not do anything else,had no other options!!
How does he know?
And then on the end of the book he suddenly changes his mind?
Don’t buy this one. There are much better books than this one…

About this title: Single father Thomas Soria seduced his son, Thomas Soria, Jr., known as T.J., to be a sex slave. When the boy became a teen, he pimped his girlfriends to his father. Then in 2000, after the brutal rape and stabbing of a 9-year-old girl, the Sorias were tried in Nevada’s first father-and-son death penalty case. of photos.

It is not the best true crime book I have read, not by a long shot but I did find it interesting and a quick read.

7 out of 10

Claiming he’d been sent by God to confess, truck driver Wayne Adam Ford walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff’s office and admitted to them that he was a serial killer. After police found a gruesome piece of evidence in Ford’s pocket, he told them that he had to be stopped before he killed again, before he murdered his ex-wife, and made his beloved three-year-old son an orphan

I am a bookcrosser and this is what I wrote about the book last year in a journal entry.

I had it set as available on my Bookcrossing shelf because of the bad reviews on amazon.
I have decided to give it a try and reading it now and yes I do understand the bad reviews.
Carlton Smith is not writing like he should have, neutral, but he is constantly telling us that poor serial killer, had sufered a mayor head trauma so in other words he could not help it?

I tried to skip those parts and then it is a good read.
What I think is annoying, he seems to write more shit about the victims than about the serial killer Wayne Adams Ford.

I am so glad I discovered this author. My first read by her was The Linnet Bird. My favorite book of 2006 (2005?)

The way she writes, she draws you into the story.
The Linnet Bird has it all. romance, history, mystery.

The Moonlit Cage is just as good.

Synopsis
Set in 1850s Afghanistan, and moving from there to India and London, Linda Holeman’s second novel is an epic story of one woman’s escape from persecution, and search for a better life. Darya is the beautiful, passionate fugitive escaping a vicious husband and the wrath of her remote Afghani village. When she stumbles across a mysterious young stranger in the mountains whilst escaping from her husband she is captivated – and falls in love. But David, the young man she meets, is not perhaps the answer she seeks for David’s story began long ago, and both he and Darya will have to overcome many obstacles in their search for happiness.

This story is intwined with her first (adult) book The Linnet Bird. You can read thiswithout having read The Linnet Bird though. It is a complete different story. You learn a lot about the way they lived but at the end you will meet some people from the first book.
Highly recommend

!I am so glad I discovered this author. My first read by her was The Linnet Bird. My favorite book of 2006 (2005?)

The way she writes, she draws you into the story.
The Linnet Bird has it all. romance, history, mystery.

The Moonlit Cage is just as good.

Synopsis
Set in 1850s Afghanistan, and moving from there to India and London, Linda Holeman’s second novel is an epic story of one woman’s escape from persecution, and search for a better life. Darya is the beautiful, passionate fugitive escaping a vicious husband and the wrath of her remote Afghani village. When she stumbles across a mysterious young stranger in the mountains whilst escaping from her husband she is captivated – and falls in love. But David, the young man she meets, is not perhaps the answer she seeks for David’s story began long ago, and both he and Darya will have to overcome many obstacles in their search for happiness.

This story is entwined with her first (adult) book The Linnet Bird. You can read this without having read The Linnet Bird though. It is a complete different story. You learn a lot about the way they lived but at the end you will meet some people from the first book.
Highly recommend