Lizzie

<p>Lizzie Borden America's most celebrated murderer comes to vivid life in this riveting and chilling book by acclaimed author Evan Hunter as the portrait of a notorious woman unfolds with shocking clarity.</p><p><em>Lizzie Borden took an ax</em></p><p><em>And gave her mother forty whacks.</em></p><p><em>When </em><em>she saw </em><em>what </em><em>she </em><em>had done</em></p><p><em>She gave </em><em>her father f</em><em>orty-one.</em></p><p>In recreating the events of that fateful day August 4 1892 in Fall River Massachusetts and the extraordinary circumstances which led up to them Evan Hunter spins a breathtakingly imaginative tale of an enigmatic spinster whose secret life would eventually force her to the ultimate confrontation with her stepmother and father.</p><p>Here is Lizzie Borden freed of history and legend--a full-bodied woman of hot blood and passion fighting against her prim New England upbringing surrendering to the late-Victorian hedonism of London Paris and the Riviera yet fated to live out her meager life in a placid Massachusetts town.</p><p>Seething with frustration and rage a prisoner of her appetites Lizzie Borden finally snapped . . . but how and why she was led into her uncompromising acts is at the heart of this enthralling suspenseful work of the imagination.</p><p>Alternating the actual inquest and trial of Lizzie Borden with an account of her head-spinning seductive trip to Europe Evan Hunter portrays with a master craftsman's art the agony of a passionate woman and the depths of a murdering heart.</p>