Women – Serial Killers. From the Ancient Roman Matron and the Queen of England to a Prostitute

«Women — the most successful, cautious, precise, methodical… serial killers. On average, they manage to kill for eight years — twice as long as the average male psychopath,» — claims researcher Michael Kelleher, author of the sensational work «The Rarest Killers.»

Why do women choose the path of serial killers? What are their motives? Under what circumstances do they commit their brutal crimes?

These and other questions are answered in Oleg Mazurin's book, in which the reader will get acquainted with the lives and crimes of 10 famous women murderers — from Queen Mary I Tudor of England, aristocrats Agrippina the Younger, Lucretia Borgia, Elizabeth Bathory, and Darya Saltykova to commoners Jane Toppan, Bella Sorensen Gannes, Bonnie Parker, Elsa Koch, and Eileen Wuornos.

They were all united by a common passion — to command the lives and deaths of others.