Review: Stalkers: True Tales of Deadly Obsessions by Eileen Ormsby

Posted September 25, 2020 by Stephanie in Reviews / 11 Comments

Title: Stalkers: True Tales of Deadly Obsessions
Author: Eileen Ormsby
Publication: August 3rd 2020
Genre: Nonfiction, True Crime
Find it on: Amazon | Barnes & Noble
Rating: 4/5

Deluded narcissists. Obsessed fans. Sinister internet trolls.Stalkers who turned deadly

A young Hollywood starlet enjoys rising fame on a smash-hit sitcom, unaware that her greatest fan is an unhinged teenager hell-bent on meeting his crush… until she films a love scene and his adoration turns into a quest to see her punished.

A bookworm teenager is brutally attacked by a vengeful author after she gives him a scathing review. She could never have known that his book was a fictionalised confession of years of pathological stalking of a young woman whose mistake was to smile at him.

A 15-year-old boy is surprised when MI6 approaches him online with a direct order from the Queen to work as a spy. His exciting new life takes a deadly turn when his girlfriend is kidnapped and he is ordered to kill his best friend

A woman is surprised by men turning up on her doorstep expecting to take part in a rape fantasy – one they believed she posted on Craigslist

Dark Webs Book 3 takes you into the twisted world of stalkers and the devastating impact their obsessions can have on their victims

This true crime book has some really wild stories about obsessive stalkers and the craziest thing about them? They have all happened in real life. Some of them were downright chilling and creepy to read about. It may sound weird to say but I really enjoyed it!

I’ve actually already heard about two of the cases featured in this book before but yet again the author provided more details than I had originally known or remembered. This was all super fascinating to read and find out about and yet she didn’t make any of the stories longer than they should be. It’s a 304 page book but it reads fairly quickly and easily.

This is the third book by Eileen Ormsby that I’ve read now and I’ve enjoyed each and every one of them. So of course I would highly recommend those too. They have been some of the best books in this particular genre that I’ve ever read.

Also read my reviews of Psycho.com: Serial Killers on the Internet & Little Girls Lost: True Tales of Heinous Crimes

 

About the author:
Eileen Ormsby is a lawyer, author and freelance journalist based in Melbourne. Her first book, Silk Road was the world’s first in-depth expose of the black markets that operate on the dark web.

Eileen’s gonzo-style investigations have led her deep into the secretive corners of the dark web where drugs and weapons dealers, hackers, hitmen and worse ply their trade. Many of these dark web interactions turned into real-world relationships, entanglements, hack attempts on her computer and even death threats from the dark web’s most successful hitman network as she researched Darkest Web. She now lives a quiet life off-grid as much as possible.
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