Under the Knife: A Beautiful Woman, a Phony Doctor, and a Shocking Homicide Book

A true-crime story about a man who poses as a doctor to perform laser treatments on people in exchange for cash to pay for his drug habit. His plan goes awry when he kills a woman by injecting her with a local anesthetic.

I liked this book but I wanted to know more about the victim's death, like the autopsy report. It is never said whether the victim died of an allergic reaction or if he overdosed her on the medication he gave her or quite what the problem was. I wanted to know more about that. Also there was an overabundance of people in this story. The author introduced us to several characters who only existed to sell the main character his house, several pages down the road. Or another character was introduced and trotted out with some regularity only to provide the main character with some financial backing a few pages down the road as well. I thought this was just extra fluff that could have been neatly trimmed out of the story or at least minimized somewhat. I did like the story itself.