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When her father and stepmother are found brutally murdered on a summer morning in 1892, Lizzie Borden -- thirty-two years old and still living at home -- immediately becomes a suspect. But after a notorious trial, she is found innocent, and no one is ever convicted of the crime. Meanwhile, others in the claustrophobic Borden household have their own motives and their own stories to tell: Lizzie's unmarried older sister, a put-upon Irish housemaid,...
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"Birmingham, 1885: Cora Burns has always struggled to control the violence inside of her. Does this temperament come from the mother she never knew, a convict who gave birth to her in jail? Or is Cora a product of her harsh upbringing in the workhouse, where her only light was a girl named Alice Salt, so like Cora that they were almost sisters. Just released from Birmingham Gaol, Cora sets out to find Alice. But her memories of Alice are hazy, entangled...
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"Suspens, mroczne tajemnice rodzinne i owiana złą sławą bohaterka - znakomita powieść oparta na faktach, która rzuca nowe światło na jedną z najbardziej zagadkowych zbrodni w amerykańskiej historii. Sprawą Lizzie Borden, młodej kobiety z Massachusetts oskarżonej o zabójstwo ojca i macochy siekierą w 1892 roku, żyła niemal cała Ameryka. W procesie kobietę uniewinniono, a przyczyn morderstwa nigdy nie wyjaśniono. Autorka tego fascynującego...