Dangerous women are a steadfast tradition of crime and mystery books. Delight in crime, mystery, and suspense in story after story featuring femme fatales.Ī delightful menu of villainy and seduction. If you enjoyed books such as In We Keep the Dead Close, Mindhunter, or In Cold Blood you will love reading America’s First Female Serial Killer.Ī World of Sexy Sleuths, Mysterious Missus, and Female Villains Flip through tales of beautiful women, female villains, and clever consorts.

Understand that even monsters were humans, first.

Experience the rarely told story of a female serial killer.

Will gain insight into the personal development of a severely damaged person without rationalizing her crimes.

Readers of America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jilted at the altar, Jane became a nurse and took control of her life, and the lives of her victims.

From there, Jane was indentured to a wealthy family who changed her name, never adopted her, wrote her out of the will, and essentially taught her how to hate herself. Making of a serial killer. When Jane was a young child, her father abandoned her and her sister to the Boston Female Asylum. Jane Toppan was absolutely a monster, but she did not start out that way.

Although all the facts are intact, books about her life and her crimes are all facts and no story. America’s First Female Serial Killer novelizes the true story of first-generation Irish-American nurse Jane Toppan, born as Honora Kelley. It’s for self-conscious feminists, Americans trying to bootstrap themselves into success, and anyone who loves a vigilante beatdown, especially one gone off the rails.Īmerica’s first female serial killer was not always a killer. It is for watchers of television shows like Deadly Women and Mindhunter, who are fascinated by how killers are made. #1 Best Seller in History of Ireland, Child Psychology, and Crime & Criminalsįor readers who are fascinated by how serial killers are made. This book is for listeners of true crime podcasts and readers of both fiction and true crime nonfiction. 'In America's First Female Serial Killer, McBrayer offers us a complex―and terrifying―portrait of a killer who seemed almost doomed from birth.' ― Kate Winkler Dawson, author of American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

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