This work has so many good points - not only is it written well and researched, it devotes just the right amount of time to each case. In other "true murder" books, there seems to be a huge descrepancy between the amount of attention a case deserves and what it actually gets. Here, each chapter is a new crime, a new set of colourful characters and, nearly always, a new country. In his search for the most interesting cases, Miller describes murders from across the globe.