Troubled Daughters Twisted Wives

<b>Fourteen chilling tales from the pioneering women who created the domestic suspense genre</b> <p/>Murderous wives deranged husbands deceitful children and vengeful friends. Few know these characters--and their creators--better than Sarah Weinman. One of today's preeminent authorities on crime fiction Weinman asks: Where would bestselling authors like Gillian Flynn Sue Grafton or Tana French be without the women writers who came before them? <p/>In <i>Troubled Daughters Twisted Wives</i> Weinman brings together fourteen hair-raising tales by women who--from the 1940s through the mid-1970s--took a scalpel to contemporary society and sliced away to reveal its dark essence. Lovers of crime fiction from any era will welcome this deliciously dark tribute to a largely forgotten generation of women writers.