The Countess

It seems really interesting - mixing reality and fiction, about a royal named Elizabeth Bathory, who lived between 1550 and 1650, and who was known as the first female serial killer.
However, the book is told through letters she writes from prison to her youngest son, and she seems a very reasonable human being for 95% of the time. There's an episode that sounds like a crazy moment right before she is taken, but really, until then, you can only gather that she is very autistically black and white in terms of justice, and very cruel in that sense - for instance, a seamstress accused of stealing is placed in the garden, naked, covered in honey, nder the sun, just because she thinks it is a fitting punishment. So she's a psychopath who abuses her power, spanking and starving the occasional maid, but the ‘hundreds' of girls who allegedly disappearar are not really in the book to be found.
let's make it clear that none of that is acceptable, but the prerrogative of the book seemed to be that... apart from it, it is well told.