HellTown: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod

As a huge fan of the true crime genre, this story stood out and I was excited to get to it. The basis of the story is about Antone Costa who terrorized Cape Town in 1969, said to have killed 4 women although he was only convicted of 2 murders. 

The author of the book inserted dialogue that may or may not have happened between people at times and I felt that was disingenuous. There were full chapters devoted to Kurt Vonnegut Jr and Norman Mailer, as well as others. With the book being so long already, I felt these were mostly filler and not necessarily pertinent to the story. I ended up skipping whole chapters because of this. I can tell the author did extensive research into this topic but when I'm reading a story about a particular serial killer, I really just want to read about that person and what exactly happened regarding their crimes. 

This particular book just fell flat for me. While the original topic is interesting the filler is not. I received this book free from NetGalley for an honest review.