Women Who Kill: Chilling Portraits of Australia's Worst Female Murderers

Women Who Kill: Chilling Portraits of Australia's Worst Female Murderers
ISBN-10
174248641X
ISBN-13
9781742486413
Series
Women Who Kill
Category
Murder
Pages
251
Language
English
Published
2011
Authors
Lindy Cameron, Ruth Wykes

Description

TRUE CRIME. AUSTRALIAN. Women Who Kill investigates more than a dozen cases of murder in Australia and New Zealand where women have taken the lives of loved ones and total strangers for the thrill of it.

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