The Arsenic Widow

<p><strong>The Untold Story of Britain's Most Lethal Woman Revealed at Last</strong></p><p>The Arsenic Widow: A Biography of Mary Ann Cotton's Life Lies and Legacy plunges readers into the haunting world of a seemingly ordinary Victorian woman whose quiet smile masked an empire of death. With the narrative depth and grit of a true Robert Caro-style investigation this book unravels the chilling rise of Mary Ann Cotton mother wife widow...and one of history's most prolific female killers.</p><p>From the coal-stained villages of County Durham to the echoing halls of the Durham Assizes every page exposes the shadows she walked through and the twenty-one lives she left behind. More than a biography this is a journey into fear fascination and the unsettling truth of how evil can hide in plain sight.</p><p> </p>