Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense

ISBN: 0143122541

Author: Weinman, Sarah

Condition: New

Fourteen chilling tales from the pioneering women who created the domestic suspense genreMurderous wives, deranged husbands, deceitful children, and vengeful friends. Few know these characters-and their creators-better than Sarah Weinman. One of todays 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?In Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, 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.