by Rupert Thomson
Rupert Thomson—“a true master,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle —now gives us his most powerful work yet: the story of a woman who, even after her death, inflames an entire nation, and of the man who comes under her spell. Having spent decades in prison for crimes gruesomely familiar to everyone in England, this murderer has finally died of natural causes but is no less notorious in death than she was...
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