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Kensington
February 2016
On Sale: January 26, 2016
Featuring: Lizzie Borden
384 pages
ISBN: 0758288913
EAN: 9780758288912
Kindle: B00X2ELHMQ
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Brandy Purdy

Brandy Purdy
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In her enthralling, richly imagined new novel, Brandy Purdy, author of The Ripper’s 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, Lizzie’s long-simmering anger
finally explodes…

Vividly written and thought-provoking, The Secrets of Lizzie Borden explores the fascinating events behind a crime that continues to grip the public imagination—a story of how thwarted desires and desperate rage could turn a dutiful daughter into a notorious killer.