Black Widow: The True Story of Giggling Granny Nannie Doss by Ryan GreenMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
It feels to me like there are two broad avenues of true crime writing: amplified novelisation with imagined dialogue and interior thoughts and then dry reportage like a scrap book of newspaper clippings and police reports. On that continuum, I drift toward the just-the-facts end. With this latest opus from Ryan Green recalling the American serial killer responsible for the deaths of 11 people and referred to as the Giggling Granny, the Lonely Hearts Killer, and the Black Widow, he has, for me, gotten to a happy medium on that continuum satisfying me with a chronological relation of events while adding just enough life to keep it interesting and brisk, too.
Also, very good narration from Steve White.
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