Best Seller
When She Was Bad
Paperback
$15.50
Published on Jan 05, 2021 | 384 Pages
Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction Crime Book
From award-winning author and journalist Patricia Pearson, When She Was Bad questions our understanding of violent women.
Why do some women murder their children? Why do others team up with men in ghoulish killing sprees? What motivates the female serial killer?
When She Was Bad explores the enigmatic heart of female darkness, drawing into focus such fascinating characters as Dorothea Puente, who murdered several elderly tenants in her boarding house in Sacramento; Mary Beth Tinning, who killed eight of her children in upstate New York; Karla Homolka, who joined forces with Paul Bernardo to abduct, rape and murder school girls in southern Ontario; and Karla Faye Tucker, the born-again Christian who was executed in Texas for having killed two people with a pickax.
In this provocative book, Patricia Pearson explores women’s innate capacity for aggression, an idea we remain deeply uncomfortable with.
From award-winning author and journalist Patricia Pearson, When She Was Bad questions our understanding of violent women.
Why do some women murder their children? Why do others team up with men in ghoulish killing sprees? What motivates the female serial killer?
When She Was Bad explores the enigmatic heart of female darkness, drawing into focus such fascinating characters as Dorothea Puente, who murdered several elderly tenants in her boarding house in Sacramento; Mary Beth Tinning, who killed eight of her children in upstate New York; Karla Homolka, who joined forces with Paul Bernardo to abduct, rape and murder school girls in southern Ontario; and Karla Faye Tucker, the born-again Christian who was executed in Texas for having killed two people with a pickax.
In this provocative book, Patricia Pearson explores women’s innate capacity for aggression, an idea we remain deeply uncomfortable with.
Author
Patricia Pearson
PATRICIA PEARSON is a critically acclaimed journalist and the author of several books of both fiction and nonfiction. Her book about what people experience when they die, Opening Heaven’s Door, was a finalist for the BC National Book Award. She has won three National Magazine Awards and the Arthur Ellis Award for best non-fiction crime book. She lives outside Toronto.
Learn More about Patricia PearsonYou May Also Like
QUICK VIEW
The Family Snitch
Trade Paperback Original
$19.95
QUICK VIEW
The Killing Fields of East New York
Trade Paperback
$18.00
QUICK VIEW
Carrie Carolyn Coco
Trade Paperback
$18.00
QUICK VIEW
No Human Involved
Trade Paperback
$19.95
QUICK VIEW
Death’s Acre
Trade Paperback
$20.00
QUICK VIEW
Dig Me a Grave
Hardcover
$29.00
QUICK VIEW
Mafia Secrets
Hardcover
$29.00
QUICK VIEW
The Coroner’s Silence
Hardcover
$32.00
QUICK VIEW
Green Crime
Hardcover
$27.95
QUICK VIEW
Going Postal
Trade Paperback
$16.95
×