Triflers Need Not Apply: Be frightened of her. Secretly root for her. And watch history's original female serial killer find her next victim.

Triflers Need Not Apply: Be frightened of her. Secretly root for her. And watch history's original female serial killer find her next victim.

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In 1900, who would believe a woman capable of killing two husbands and forty other men? In 1900 Chicago, a husband dies under the most suspicious of circumstances. Anton Sorenson had a $2,000 life-insurance policy set to expire and took out a new policy for $3,000. For just one day - July 30, 1900 - both policies were in effect. Sorenson dies of a cerebral hemorrhage on that very day. According to his wife, Belle Gunness, he had come home from work with a terrible headache. She said she gave him quinine powder, a common remedy, and went to prepare dinner. When she returned to check on him, she said, he was dead. Belle remarries, this time to a much-younger man. Eight months later, Peter Gunness is also dead, the back of his skull smashed in. In 1906, a series of personal ads begin to appear in a local Midwest newspaper. Belle is looking for investors for her farm. None of the men who answer her ad are ever seen again . . . In a dazzlingly original and chilling reimagining of the life of Belle Gunness, the original black widow, Camilla Bruce opens the door to the mind of a female serial killer, where murderous scheming and the darkest of thoughts reside.

Thriller / suspense fiction, Historical fiction, Adventure fiction, True stories: general, Crime and mystery fiction

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Camilla Bruce

480 pages

H: 234mm W: 153mm Spine: 34mm

Weight: 577 grams