This is a book about a family of murderers, but also about the entire context of life in the in middle 19th century. Maybe it’s because I’ve got dysfunctional politics on the brain right now (gee, I wonder why?) but a chapter I found most interesting felt very out of context in a book about  a serial killing family. Instead, this chapter detailed a political fight in Kansas 150 years ago – and would you believe that it involved allegations of sexual impropriety on the […]