All titles by
Sarah Weinman
Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives
Stores From the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense
Penguin, September 2013
Murderous wives, deranged husbands, deceitful children, and vengeful friends. Few know these characters—and their creators—better than Sarah Weinman. One of today’s 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.
“Crime connoisseur Sarah Weinman has thoughtfully selected a Whitman’s Sampler of wickedness.”
– Publishers Weekly
“Amazing . . . important and rivet- ing . . . Sarah Weinman knows everything about crime fiction.”
– Lisa Scottoline, author of DON’T GO