This book is on the reading list for The Last Podcast On The Left. I have other books by Harold Schechter, and I really enjoy them. I would strongly suggest giving his work a try if you are into true crime. There are several available to listen to on Audible Plus that are only a couple of hours long, plus his books about well known serial killers.

This particular book is about Belle Gunness, a woman who lured men to her farm and murdered them. Her activities took place between 1902 and 1908 in Indiana. For some reason, I always find it difficult to wrap my head around the fact that people were out here wildly murdering in the early 1900s. I shouldn't be shocked, but I am always taken aback for some reason. A lot of the men she murdered were farm hands she hired to work on her farm. It isn't extremely gory, and does give quite a history of the region and town this happened in, which I loved. Also, I learned that she got the nickname Lady Bluebeard, which I found morbidly funny.