Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives
Title | Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Weinman |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 386 |
Release | 2013-08-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0143122541 |
Fourteen chilling tales from the pioneering women who created the domestic suspense genre Murderous wives, deranged husbands, deceitful children, and vengeful friends. Few know these characters—and their creators—better than Sarah Weinman. One of today’s preeminent authorities on crime fiction, Weinman asks: Where would bestselling authors like Gillian Flynn, Sue Grafton, or Tana French be without the women writers who came before them? In Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, Weinman brings together fourteen hair-raising tales by women who—from the 1940s through the mid-1970s—took a scalpel to contemporary society and sliced away to reveal its dark essence. Lovers of crime fiction from any era will welcome this deliciously dark tribute to a largely forgotten generation of women writers.
Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives
Title | Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Weinman |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 386 |
Release | 2013-08-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0698136241 |
Fourteen chilling tales from the pioneering women who created the domestic suspense genre Murderous wives, deranged husbands, deceitful children, and vengeful friends. Few know these characters—and their creators—better than Sarah Weinman. One of today’s preeminent authorities on crime fiction, Weinman asks: Where would bestselling authors like Gillian Flynn, Sue Grafton, or Tana French be without the women writers who came before them? In Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, Weinman brings together fourteen hair-raising tales by women who—from the 1940s through the mid-1970s—took a scalpel to contemporary society and sliced away to reveal its dark essence. Lovers of crime fiction from any era will welcome this deliciously dark tribute to a largely forgotten generation of women writers.
Unspeakable Acts
Title | Unspeakable Acts PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Weinman |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 342 |
Release | 2020-07-28 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 0062839993 |
A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and popular genre, edited and curated by Sarah Weinman, the award-winning author of The Real Lolita The appeal of true-crime stories has never been higher. With podcasts like My Favorite Murder and In the Dark, bestsellers like I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and Furious Hours, and TV hits like American Crime Story and Wild Wild Country, the cultural appetite for stories of real people doing terrible things is insatiable. Acclaimed author ofThe Real Lolitaand editor of Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s (Library of America) and Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives (Penguin), Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of recent true crime tales. She culls together some of the most refreshing and exciting contemporary journalists and chroniclers of crime working today. Michelle Dean’s “Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick” went viral when it first published and is the basis for the TV showThe Act and Pamela Colloff’s “The Reckoning,” is the gold standard for forensic journalism. There are 13 pieces in all and as a collection, they showcase writing about true crime across the broadest possible spectrum, while also reflecting what makes crime stories so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader.
The Matriarch
Title | The Matriarch PDF eBook |
Author | Gladys Bronwyn Stern |
Publisher | New York : Grosset & Dunlap |
Total Pages | 318 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Families |
ISBN |
Viennese Jewish family settles in London.
Elementary: The Ghost Line
Title | Elementary: The Ghost Line PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Christopher |
Publisher | Titan Books (US, CA) |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2015-02-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1781169853 |
summons to a bullet-riddled body in a Hell’s Kitchen apartment marks the start of a new case for consulting detectives Sherlock Holmes and Joan Watson. The victim is a subway train driver with a hidden stash of money and a strange Colombian connection, but why would someone kill him and leave a fortune behind? The search for the truth will lead the sleuths deep into the hidden underground tunnels beneath New York City, where answers—and more bodies—may well await them...
Wives and Daughters
Title | Wives and Daughters PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 612 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Children of Henry VIII
Title | The Children of Henry VIII PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Weir |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | 403 |
Release | 1997-07-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0345407865 |
“Fascinating . . . Alison Weir does full justice to the subject.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer At his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the nine-year-old Prince Edward; the Lady Mary, the adult daughter of his first wife Katherine of Aragon; the Lady Elizabeth, the teenage daughter of his second wife Anne Boleyn; and his young great-niece, the Lady Jane Grey. In this riveting account Alison Weir paints a unique portrait of these extraordinary rulers, examining their intricate relationships to each other and to history. She traces the tumult that followed Henry's death, from the brief intrigue-filled reigns of the boy king Edward VI and the fragile Lady Jane Grey, to the savagery of "Bloody Mary," and finally the accession of the politically adroit Elizabeth I. As always, Weir offers a fresh perspective on a period that has spawned many of the most enduring myths in English history, combining the best of the historian's and the biographer's art. “Like anthropology, history and biography can demonstrate unfamiliar ways of feeling and being. Alison Weir's sympathetic collective biography, The Children of Henry VIII does just that, reminding us that human nature has changed--and for the better. . . . Weir imparts movement and coherence while re-creating the suspense her characters endured and the suffering they inflicted.”—The New York Times Book Review