SHE KILLS ME

'The True Stories of History's Deadliest Women', this powerful collection of stories about 40 women who murdered for revenge, love and even pleasure is rife with historical details that will have any true crime junkie on the edge of their seat. In every tragic story men are expected to be the killers and there are countless studies and works of art made about male violence. However, when women are featured in stories about murder they are rarely portrayed as predators but as prey. But here are women that are impulsive and angry and messy and inconvenient, violent and depraved, bloodthirsty women who turn the trope of a damsel in distress on its head and commit some of the most unforgivable acts of all time. Their penchant for cruelty and deception, paired with an utter lack of remorse, makes them true-crime villains of the highest order. Gruesome and surprising, here are lesser-known women alongside Lizzie Borden, Virginia Hall and Mary I, pretty poisoners, black widows, scorned women, murderous mercenaries, killer queens and avenging angels. 176pp, well illus. in colour.