I enjoyed Hallie Rubenhold's "The Five". Rather than recount the murders of Jack the Ripper, which have been done a million times, she sought to breathe life into the five women he is accused of murdering and dispel the myth that they were "just prostitutes". Only two of them were actually on record as sex workers, the other three were unfortunate women who lost everything due to circumstances and alcoholism. Three of them were married at one point, three of them had children. They were daughters, sisters, mothers, wives, and friends who had the misfortune of being attacked by Jack the Ripper. It was very interesting and of course very heartbreaking.
I was so disappointed by "Cari Mora" by Thomas Harris. I mentally prepared myself for it not to be as good as his Hannibal Lecter books, but wow, this was just awful. The font was huge, I thought I had accidentally gotten a large print, but no, that was just how it was and it was short, so the characters were very thin and the whole story wasn't very fleshed out. Basically a group of shady characters are working at the former home of mobster Pablo Escobar, trying to open a safe that contains millions. Another group of shady characters is trying to beat them to it, and a lovely woman named Cari Mora is caught in the middle of it all, just trying to escape with her life. It had the makings of a great story, but it just didn't pan out.
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