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THE SECRETS OF LIZZIE BORDEN
By: Brandy Purdy
Anyone is capble of anything
Kensington
February 2016
On Sale: January 26, 2016
Featuring: Lizzie Borden
384 pages
ISBN: 0758288913
EAN: 9780758288912
Kindle: B00X2ELHMQ
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Suspense | Mystery Historical
In her enthralling, richly imagined new novel, Brandy Purdy, author of The Ripperβs Wife, creates a compelling portrait of the real, complex woman behind an unthinkable crime. Lizzie Borden should be one of the most fortunate young women in Fall River, Massachusetts. Her wealthy father could easily afford to provide his daughters with fashionable clothes, travel, and a rich, cultured life. Instead, haunted by the ghost of childhood poverty, he forces Lizzie and her sister, Emma, to live frugally, denying them the simplest modern conveniences. Suitors and socializing are discouraged, as her father views all gentleman callers as fortune hunters. Lonely and deeply unhappy, Lizzie stifles her frustration, dreaming of the freedom that will come with her eventual inheritance. But soon, even that chance of future independence seems about to be ripped away. And on a stifling August day in 1892, Lizzieβs long-simmering anger finally explodesβ¦ Vividly written and thought-provoking, The Secrets of Lizzie Borden explores the fascinating events behind a crime that continues to grip the public imaginationβa story of how thwarted desires and desperate rage could turn a dutiful daughter into a notorious killer.
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