Lizzie - Evan Hunter

n nLizzie Borden, America's most celebrated murderer, comes to vivid life in this riveting and chilling book by acclaimed author Evan Hunter as the portrait of a notorious woman unfolds with shocking clarity.n nLizzie Borden took an axn nAnd gave her mother forty whacks.n nWhen she saw what she had donen nShe gave her father forty-one.n nIn recreating the events of that fateful day, August 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts, and the extraordinary circumstances which led up to them, Evan Hunter spins a breathtakingly imaginative tale of an enigmatic spinster whose secret life would eventually force her to the ultimate confrontation with her stepmother and father.n nHere is Lizzie Borden freed of history and legend--a full-bodied woman of hot blood and passion, fighting against her prim New England upbringing, surrendering to the late-Victorian hedonism of London, Paris and the Riviera, yet fated to live out her meager life in a placid Massachusetts town.n nSeething with frustration and rage, a prisoner of her appetites, Lizzie Borden finally snapped . . .

but how and why she was led into her uncompromising acts is at the heart of this enthralling, suspenseful work of the imagination.n nAlternating the actual inquest and trial of Lizzie Borden with an account of her head-spinning, seductive trip to Europe, Evan Hunter portrays with a master craftsman's art the agony of a passionate woman and the depths of a murdering heart.n