women murderers

During World War I, Sari Arany, a herbalist in a small Hungarian village falls in love with on of the Italian POWs housed nearby, when her fianc? returns Sari poisons him. Soon other women in the village are coming to her for help in similar situations.

"A 1920s [Hungarian] midwife who may have been the century's most prolific killer, [leads] a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least [one hundren-sixty] men"--Provided by publisher.

A writer goes deep into the heart of Italy to unravel a century-old family mystery in this spellbinding memoir that blends the suspenseful twists of Making a Murderer and the emotional insight of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels.Since childhood, Helene Stapinski heard lurid tales about her great-great-grandmother, Vita. In Southern Italy, she was a loose woman who had murdered someone. Immigrating to America with three children, she lost one along the way.

Taking up residence in Maplecroft, a mansion near the sea, Lizzie Borden, a suspect in the brutal deaths of her father and stepmother, waits with an axe to stop the evil that is rising from the ocean's depths to consume her.

Astrid, the only child of a single mother, struggles to find a place for herself in a world full of foster homes and impossible circumstances, after her mother is jailed for murder.

"The author shares how she visited Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel in prison to find out how they had changed after years of incarceration for the brutal murders they performed for Charles Manson, and how getting to know them led to more questions"--OCLC.

Historical fiction novel based on the story of Anna Kristine Magn?sd?ttir. In the early nineteenth century, Agnes was accused of murdering two men out of a passion of love. Sent to a farm in northern Iceland to await execution, Agnes is shunned by the family forced to house her. Only the priest called T?ti is willing to try to get to know Agnes, and in the process uncovers her side of the story--but too late.

"Julien Fraye is a simple creature with simple desires: all she wants is everything. She's poised to get it, too--once she finishes poisoning her wealthy older husband. However, she wasn't expecting Everett Priest--who sees Julien for what she is, and he is determined that she faces punishment for her crimes. But Julien isn't about to make it easy for Everett, leading him on a merry chase across the country--and through her own tortured past"--Provided by publisher.

Presents the classic story of Tess, a young woman who finds herself the victim of men, fate, and forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England.

Discusses the surge of murders by women in Chicago in 1924, highlighting the killers who inspired the play "Chicago" and its subsequent movie and musical adaptations, and introduces girl reporter Maurine Watkins who became embroiled in the cases and dedicated herself to exposing the tendency of the all-male juries to go easy on women--especially the pretty ones.