I too am mystified as to how this book became such a runaway best seller. The book starts out well, introducing us to a cast of crazies and describing Savannah in such a rich way that we are immediately drawn in. Unfortunately, the subsequent murder story with Jim Williams seems tacked on, and amounts to little more than a rehash of the verdicts in his four trials. In the end, the book seems to be more of a long magazine article than a cohesive work of non fiction. A major disappointment.