This is not a regular true crime book. It's more like an essay on true crimes.It's thick. It's more than 500 pages but it has no photos or pictures!The author briefly described crimes ranging from the time of Roman Empires till 1989. Along with these stories, he expressed his theory or belief of why people committed crimes. I'm not interested in this kind of theory. I prefer to know when and how the crime was committed. How the detectives found the killer. Then how he was punished. In short, I'm interested in all the details of a crime, not a few details of a hundred crimes in a book.Because of that, I give this book one star.