Dorothy was an amazing woman with some true trials in her life. I don’t think she was the type to commit suicide. This book highlights the shoddy police work done at the time. Sadly, it isn’t the best written - it is convoluted and repetitive. The author should have laid out the “plot” with each person individually and shown how they potentially overlapped. Instead he simply tossed it like a salad and wrote it out with each person jumbled together with all the facts in a big knot.

Quite a lot of repetition, but the facts are so strong that it's no wonder that he wanted to beat you over the head with them. If you don't know about Dorothy Kilgallen, you should read this. If you like stories about strong women, you should read this. If you care at all about who killed JFK and RFK and why, you should read this. My only question is, why hasn't her case been reopened??? And, why won't her kids talk?

This book is fascinating. I had no idea who Dorothy Kilgallen was, and the Oswald acted alone theory definitely permeated my textbooks.

First half is good. The second half is redundant.

2.5 stars

This book starts off well, setting the tone with a look at Dorothy Kilgallen's life, her considerable influence, and the events leading up to her death. I had never heard of her before but am glad to have learned about this incredible women through this book.

Unfortunately, once the book gets to her death, the tone changes to some often superfluous, redundant speculation, with far too much fawning and nor nearly enough editing. Every time it seems like "this author" is going to provide something genuinely meaty to grasp on to, it turns out to be more flighty repetitive gossip column Scooby Doo ghost hunting instead of the critical investigative analysis it thinks it is.

Got a little repetitive in second half of book.

A fascinating subject but horrible writing - repetitive, full of fulsome adjectives, and structured neither chronologically nor thematically. I believe that it was based on Mark Shaw's earlier book on Killgallen with the new findings wrapped around the older text. It really needed a total rewrite and integration of the new material into the old. And Shaw sorely needed a textual editor as well. A second amended edition would be welcome.