Triflers Need Not Apply: Be frightened of her. Secretly root for her. And watch history’s original female serial killer find her next victim.

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What I enjoyed about this book was that it was based on the true story of possibly America’s first female serial killer and possibly still one of the most prolific.

Triflers Need Not Apply by Camilla Bruce | Goodreads

Thank you to Berkley, Goodreads, and NetGalley for my giveaway ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review. It was if all the prose skills to flow and placement and description all fell in the first 1/2 of the book. And once Peter suffers a tragic accident with a meat grinder—or cleaver, depending on who you ask—what's a twice-made widow to do with a huge farm but create an ad asking for male farm hands to come and help her? The switching perspective between sisters was at times jarring and seemingly needless outside of narrative structure but overall this book was an entertaining and educational read. Triflers Need Not Apply is the reimagining of the life of Belle Gunness, history’s original female serial killer.

The good people of Illinois may have their suspicions, but if those fools knew what she’d given up, what was taken from her, how she’d suffered, surely they’d understand. Triflers Need Not Apply was her first foray into historical fiction; she has also published two highly acclaimed speculative novels: You Let Me In and The Witch in the Well. Welcome to the upcoming book, “ Triflers Need Not Apply: Seeking a Feminist Man in A Millennial Dating Hellscape” by Amalia Howard. I don’t usually read true crime or anything overly gruesome but the cover and blurb caught my attention.

Triflers Need Not Apply - Penguin Books UK

I'd definitely recommend going into this knowing that you're getting a life's story and not a snapshot novelization or a glorified true crime fixation.There is no accurate data about the total number of victims but Bella Gunness was a real person who killed. I thought I'd love this because I'm a fan of true crime (and because Belle is such a fascinating and terrible person) and I did really enjoy it but the author took a lot of creative liberties with the facts and that made it more of a 3.