... what is true, in a lawful sense, is curled and uncurled in this text, making it one of the more incisive intersectional feminist analyses of myth and murder.

Trabucco Zerán, well translated by Sophie Hughes, is a moving, imaginative writer.

A thoughtful interdisciplinary study on the relationship between criminal law, gender, and femininity.

... [a] thrilling fusion of true crime and investigative memoir.

Rather than further sensationalizing these crimes, the author uses these women’s action—and, perhaps more importantly, the public reaction to their stories—to reflect on society’s shifting attitudes about gender, anger, violence, and the law.