Beneath the Blossoms

<p><strong>She looked like a grandmother. She buried like a predator.</strong></p><p>Behind the lace curtains of 1426 F Street lived Dorothea Puente warm smile soft voice a woman known for taking in the broken the addicted the elderly and the discarded. But under the blossoms of her manicured garden lay a horror so carefully cultivated it deceived an entire city.</p><p>The Arsenic Widow: Beneath the Blossoms is a gripping deeply researched portrait of America's most unlikely serial killer. Through meticulous storytelling it reveals how Puente mastered the art of trust wielded kindness as a weapon and turned vulnerability into opportunity until the soil finally gave up its secrets.</p><p>Chilling poetic and hauntingly intimate this book pulls readers into the quiet dread of a house where meals came warm... and guests vanished without a sound.</p><p> </p>