True Crime

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I like true crime and the premise of this one definitely caught my interest, but the rest of the book did not. I love reading but this one felt more like a chore to finish. I don’t know exactly why it didn’t grab me more because the writing was good (although different than most true crime I’ve read) and it was clearly well researched. I think part of what I struggled with is that it felt like nothing happened. I feel like it could have made a decent movie if it went for the comedy angle. Because this book wasn’t so much about grisly crime as badly attempted grisly crime. There were more attempts and failures than anything else. I felt like the crimes themselves felt exaggerated. A murder for hire business sounds a lot worse than saying some guy conned some already shady individuals to kill the man who screwed him over financially. None of the characters invoked any empathy from me and there was a lot of unnecessary and not helpful to the story details about them or random side characters.