{"product_id":"poisoned-blood-a-true-story-of-murder-passion-and-an-astonishing-hoax-paperback","title":"Poisoned Blood: A True Story of Murder, Passion, and an Astonishing Hoax - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilip E. Ginsburg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBestseller: The \"astonishing\" true story of the notorious \"black widow\" who preyed on her husband and daughter and faked her own death (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A mesmerizing portrait of an American murderess with \"a genius for deception,\" \u003ci\u003ePoisoned Blood \u003c\/i\u003eis \"one of the most riveting true-crime stories in memory\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003ePoisoned Blood\u003c\/i\u003e, which became a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller. His subsequent career as a freelance writer produced histories, brochures and other materials--mostly for nonprofit organizations--and a second true crime work, \u003ci\u003eThe Shadow of Death\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 410\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 26, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766678946080,"sku":"9781504068482","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0fad8ce4180bdafdb938ba62c7a1a2ff.webp?v=1780296664","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/poisoned-blood-a-true-story-of-murder-passion-and-an-astonishing-hoax-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}