Started: 1/26/20
Finished: 4/11/20
Year: 1996
Pages: 532
Genre: True Crime
Grade: C
Reason for reading: booksfree.com book
Blurb (from back cover): "They were married in a picture-perfect wedding in Niagara-on-the-Lake and they rode off in a horse-drawn carriage. Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo were the very image of love and success. But they had blood-including the blood of Karla's own younger sister-on their hands.
"This is the definitive inside account of a serial murder case unparalleled in history. It is a story of a man and a woman joining together in torture and mutilation crimes that are virtually unspeakable. It is a story of sexual depravities videotaped by Bernardo and Homolka themselves-tapes so shocking that a trial judge ordered them destroyed, although they are rumored to have surfaced in New York and Tokyo. It is a story of authorities taking six years and twenty-three victims to stop the killings-even after Paul Bernardo's sister and best friend had both tried to turn him in.
"Investigative journalist Stephen Williams takes you inside this shocking case-into the motivation of a couple wed in blood, into the details of their crimes and motivations, to perhaps the worst outrage of all: the sweetheart deal that allowed Karla Homolka to escape punishment for her deeds."
Opinion: This isn't a bad true crime novel if you can get past the gore and porn in the first half of the book. The trial aspects are interesting and makes one question the legal system of how one person can really get away with murder.
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