She Kills Me: The True Stories of History's Deadliest Women

by Jennifer Wright Narrated by Eva Kaminsky

Overview

A powerful collection of stories about women who murdered-for revenge, for love, and even for pleasure-rife with historical details that will have any true-crime junkie on the edge of their seat

In every tragic story, men are expected to be the killers. There are countless studies and works of art made about male violence. However, when women are featured in stories about murder, they are rarely portrayed as predators. They're the prey. This common dynamic is one of the reasons that women are so enthralled by female murderers. They do the things that women aren't supposed to do and live the lives that women aren't supposed to want: lives that are impulsive and angry and messy and inconvenient. Maybe we feel bad about loving them, but we eat it up just the same.

Residing squarely in the middle of a Venn diagram of feminism and true crime, She Kills Me tells the story of forty women who murdered out of necessity, fear, revenge, and even for pleasure.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"this collection will both creep you out and leave you a little bit inspired, depending on the story you read."—BookRiot

“Wright sets the record straight...Each account is brief, an amuse-bouche for readers interested in crimes perpetuated by women. This book of bite-size essays will appeal to fans of crime podcasts such as My Favorite Murder. Recommended for libraries seeking to diversify their true crime collections.”
—Library Journal

BookRiot

"this collection will both creep you out and leave you a little bit inspired, depending on the story you read."

Library Journal

07/01/2021

Conversations about murderers tend to focus on men—Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ed Gein—but author and journalist Wright (We Came First; It Ended Badly) sets the record straight here. She argues that women kill and have killed for millennia and for reasons as varied as those of men who kill. Wright pinpoints 40 women across history and from around the globe who had the means, opportunity, and motive to take out someone (or several someones), including Elizabeth Bathory, a sadistic 16th-century Hungarian noblewoman who preyed on village girls; Ching Shih (1775–1844), a Chinese pirate who punished disobedient followers with death and was even more ruthless with her enemies; and Celia (no surname), an enslaved Black woman in the U.S. who in 1855 killed the man who had enslaved and raped her. Each account is brief, an amuse-bouche for readers interested in crimes perpetrated by women. VERDICT This book of bite-size essays will appeal to fans of crime podcasts such as My Favorite Murder. Recommended for libraries seeking to diversify their true crime collections.—Ahliah Bratzler, Indianapolis

Product Details

BN ID:	2940178573365
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	01/25/2022
Edition description:	Unabridged

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