The Killer of Little Shepherds : A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science (Hardcover)

from Marlene-NL

This is not the typical true crime book but more of a historical true crime which is genre I love. It is not as easy to read because you also learn a lot of things. That happened to me while reading The Killer of Little Shepherds. I love history so it was interesting to read how the criminologist...

from Katebat

In the last decade of the nineteenth century, when the application of leeches and bloodletting were still common medical practices and grisly murders would incite a vicious mob out to punish innocent bystanders by matter of proximity and little other evidence, French scientists were on the forefr...

from LVassmer

This book is extremely well written and has a surprisingly good flow. I was a little hesitant when I read the description. I wondered how the author would be able to marry the two separate subjects of the rise in forensic science and the serial killer that the title is taken after. I was pleasant...

from trishrope

I enjoyed this well researched and totally readable account of the serial killer, Joseph Vacher, (Vacher admitted to killing 11 people during the late 1800's across the French countryside), and the Forensic scientist who helped convict him, Alexandre Lacassagne. The book is told in alternating ch...

from yvonne.sevignykaiser

Riveting is a great single word explanation of this book. The story is actually two stories intertwined, one of a serial murderer who is eventually caught, Joseph Vacher and the second is the story of Dr. Alexander Lacassagne a renowned criminologist who sought to create standards in forensic sci...