Granny Ripper: Murder, Madness, and the Hidden World of Tamara Samsonova

On the evening of July 27, 2015, police officers knocked on the door of an apartment in Kupchino, a grey residential district on the southern edge of St. Petersburg. The door was answered by a small, white-haired woman of sixty-eight, who smiled and invited them in. Within hours, Tamara Mitrofanovna Samsonova was under arrest for the murder and dismemberment of her seventy-nine-year-old neighbour,...