Poisoned Blood - by Philip E Ginsburg (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><i>New York Times </i></b><b>Bestseller: The "astonishing" true story of the notorious "black widow" who preyed on her husband and daughter and faked her own death (<i>The Washington Post Book World</i>).</b> <p/> Pretty, smart, and pampered, Audrey Marie Hilley grew up in a small Alabama town believing she was entitled to the best of everything. But marriage to her high school sweetheart, a cushy secretarial job, and motherhood were not enough to satisfy Marie, and she soon began to act out in troubling ways. Only when her husband, Frank, became sick with a mysterious illness, did it seem that she was ready to put someone else's needs ahead of her own. The truth was far more disturbing. <p/> Four years after Frank died, Marie's daughter, Carol, began to experience debilitating stomach pains. The young woman was near death when the horrifying reality finally emerged: Marie had poisoned her husband with arsenic and was attempting to do the same to her daughter. It was the first in a series of shocking twists that exposed Marie Hilley as a cold-blooded chameleon capable of the most sinister of crimes. From Alabama to Florida to New Hampshire, her trail of death and deceit included multiple identities, a second marriage, a false kidnapping, a fake death, several dramatic escapes, and a final act of desperation that brought the whole sordid saga to an astonishing end. <p/> A mesmerizing portrait of an American murderess with "a genius for deception," <i>Poisoned Blood </i>is "one of the most riveting true-crime stories in memory" (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>).<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Illuminating . . . An astonishing and complex case, and one which the author ably unravels . . . [Ginsburg] keeps us on the edge of our seats." ⏤<i>The </i><i>Washington Post Book World</i> <p/> "The saga of this cold, cruel, and calculating person, told expertly by former <i>Providence</i><i>Journal-Bulletin </i>reporter Ginsburg, is memorable." ⏤<i>Publishers Weekly</i> <p/> "Ginsburg does a bang-up investigative job . . . producing an absorbing page-turner out of this chilling case." ⏤<i>Kirkus Reviews</i> <p/> "A fascinating case." ⏤<i>Library Journal</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Philip E. Ginsburg enjoyed several careers, sacrificing the advantages of continuity and seniority for the pleasures of new challenges and a variety of experience and learning. The common thread was writing, and each profession fed his curiosity about individual lives and how they fit together in a mosaic of politics and culture. <p/> Ginsburg started writing before he was a teenager as a reporter for a short-lived summer camp newspaper. After college and a term in the Peace Corps, he worked as a newspaper reporter, a college professor teaching comparative and Chinese politics, and executive director of the New Hampshire Humanities Council. On a sabbatical from the Council, he turned what was intended to be a magazine article harking back to his journalism days into a book, <i>Poisoned Blood</i>, which became a <i>New York Times</i> bestseller. His subsequent career as a freelance writer produced histories, brochures and other materials--mostly for nonprofit organizations--and a second true crime work, <i>The Shadow of Death</i>. Since retiring as a writer, Ginsburg has worked as a volunteer advisor/mediator at the New Hampshire Consumer Protection Bureau and a court guardian for children in abuse and neglect cases. He also served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. <br>
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