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- A superb collection of true-crime stories--written by Texas Monthly's legendary feature writer Skip Hollandsworth--that reminds us why America is perennially obsessed with the genre.Skip Hollandsworth has been covering true crime since long before the podcasts, networks, and television shows discovered it.
- Author(s): Skip Hollandsworth
- 272 Pages
- True Crime, Murder
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Book Synopsis
A superb collection of true-crime stories--written by Texas Monthly's legendary feature writer Skip Hollandsworth--that reminds us why America is perennially obsessed with the genre.
Skip Hollandsworth has been covering true crime since long before the podcasts, networks, and television shows discovered it. Texas born and bred, the revered journalist joined Texas Monthly in 1989, and the stories he has written over three-plus decades have helped define a locale and a culture.
Curated by Hollandsworth, She Kills brings together beloved stories that focus in particular on female perpetrators--from the high schooler who was so desperate to move back in with Mom that she had no choice but to poison her father's refried beans, to the wallflower nurse in small-town Texas who one day started killing off her patients, to the lovelorn dental hygienist who ordered a hit on her rival.
These are expertly crafted tales that will stop readers in their tracks and leave them gasping with shock and pleasure. Each story is updated by Hollandsworth, who provides background on his original storytelling and new information on the perpetrators and victims, where available.
She Kills is a jaw-dropping, addictively readable compendium of women whose often sensational crimes and circumstances put them on the wrong side of the law.
She Kills is illustrated with 44 black-and-white photos throughout.
Review Quotes
"Blending traditions, memories, reflections, and discoveries, Being Texan is an expansive and inclusive love letter to an ever-changing, infinitely surprising state. There's an entire world inside of each of these narratives, provoking and celebrating Texas's overflowing culture; this book magnifies and challenges the question of who a Texan can be, while paying homage to the many different ways that we come to belong." -- Bryan Washington, author of Lot and Memorial, on Being Texan
"I've been in Texas for decades but still find my chosen state a mystery and a marvel. This collection of writing by Texas's very best is cause for celebration. What a hopeful, fascinating, beautiful book." -- Amanda Eyre Ward, author of The Jetsetters and The Lifeguards, on Being Texan
"The editors of Texas Monthly deliver reader favorites from the magazine's 50-year history, as well as stunning recipes that highlight the culinary influence of the immigrants who call the state home. . . . Those who crave bold flavors will relish this collection of Lone Star exceptionalism." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review, on The Big Texas Cookbook