100 tales of passion, revenge and despair!
There has always been something especially horrifying about murders comitted by women - perhaps because women are still considered gentler and more caring than men or perhaps because their victims are so often within the family, among those they are expected to protect and nurture.
The murdresses who have stood in the dock fit no stereotype. They may be rich and spoiled or poor and desperate, voluptuous sirens or dumpy matrons. Few of them are sadistic killers. The notorious Myra Hindley, one of the 'Moors Murderers', the women of Nazi death camps and Elizabeth Brownrigg, who tortured a servant to death, are the exceptions. Most see murder as a practical way out of their problems.
The true stories told here reveal the darker side of the female nature; while the characters that parade through these pages may be pitiable, hateful or inscrutable, they are always intriguing.
