My experience reading this book was largely me thinking "maybe I would be enjoying this more if..."

I'm a casual listener of the podcast and enjoy the two author's narrative styles, so I figured I should give the book a go. I listened to it, and it felt like listening to a special podcast series. It was fine, in that sense, but not remarkable. The book lacked cohesion and depth. Each chapters was a self contained case study that wasn't necessarily related to other chapters or even demonstrated its point beyond providing anecdotal evidence. I found myself frustrated really often (and not only with some of the inaccurate neuroscience), hence the two star rating.

I wasn't quite sure who the intended audience of this book was - if it's for true crime fans, why focus almost exclusively on famous and well-covered cases? If it's for people dipping their toes into the genre, won't many of these passages be confusing and disjointed? In short, this book did not read like a book but read like a podcast series. I'd recommend it if you're casually into true crime, but I seem to have had my fill.