Review of The Countess by Rebecca Johns
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
1-20-2011
Publication Title
Fiction Writers Review
Abstract
Erzsebet Bathory gained immortal fame as one of the first female serial killers; known as the "Bloody Countess," she was accused of brutally torturing and murdering over six-hundred young women. But was she really an unrepentant, psychopathic murderer—or simply a political obstacle to the king? Was she really bathing in the blood of her victims, or was she herself the victim of a witch hunt? Such questions haunt the pages of The Countess (Crown, 2010), Rebecca Johns’s lively historical novel, which reconstructs the complexity of this 17th century scandal and brings alive the woman behind the myth.
Recommended Citation
Valeri, Laura E..
2011.
"Review of The Countess by Rebecca Johns."
Fiction Writers Review.
source: https://fictionwritersreview.com/review/the-countess-by-rebecca-johns/
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/writing-linguistics-facpubs/204
