Deadlier than the Male: Ireland’s Female Killers.
Author: KIELY, David M.
Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 2005. xii, 188 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
A woman who slew her husband with the Christmas present she’d given him. A grandmother who enthusiastically assisted in the murder of her own granddaughter. A woman, who helped her lover brutally slaughter her husband.
David Kiely, author of the bestseller Bloody Women: Ireland’s Female Killers, returns with a new collection of cases from north and south of the border. Spanning more than a century, Deadlier than the Male offers a startling and compelling look at the circumstances that drove sixteen Irishwomen to murder. Many were pushed to the brink by abusive partners, others entered a deadly love triangle. Still others chose the way of murder to further their own selfish ends. Deadlier than the Male is a perfect sequel to Bloody Women.
Grippingly written, these stories tell of moments of madness, panic and evil.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
Catherine Clifford
and the Ring of PoisonersBellina Prior
and the Infant in the BoilerHannah Flynn
and the Murder of the Farmer’s WifeBridieWalsh
and the Lethal LemonadeCharlotte Bryant
and the Raggle-Taggle GypsyMary Somerville,
the Heartless Grandmother of MonaghanBridget Waters:
Revenge of a Woman ScornedMarian Price,
the Woman who Knew no CompromiseNorma Cotter,
the Wife with the ShotgunAnna Maria Sacco
and the Teenage AssassinKaren McDonnell
and the Death of a Secret SoldierLorraine Farrell:
the Drugs Baron and the Double PlotJulie McGinley
and the Shallow Grave in LeitrimDolores O’Neill,
the Wife who Walked into DoorsISBN: 0717138941
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