The Murderess Must Die
by Marlie Parker Wasserman
Level Best Books
Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
Historical Fiction | Mystery & Thrillers | True Crime
Pub Date 06 Jul 2021
I am reviewing a copy of The Murderess Must Die through Level Best Books, Independent Book Publishers association and Netgalley:
During a cold winter day in 1898 hundreds of spectators gather at a Brooklyn courthouse, scrambling for a view of the woman they label a murderess. Martha Place has been charged with throwing acid in her stepdaughter’s face, hitting her with an axe, suffocating her with a pillow, then trying to kill her husband with the same axe. It will be another year before the crowd knows that Martha Place will be the first woman in the world to be executed in the electric chair. None of her eight lawyers can save her from a guilty verdict and the governor of New York, Theodore Roosevelt, refuses to grant her clemency.
The questions remain whether Martha Place was a wicked step mother, an abused wife or an insane killer? Was her stepdaughter a tragic victim? Why would a well-dressed woman, living with an upstanding husband, in a respectable neighborhood, turn violent?
From the beginning of the crime we have only heard from those who abused and Condemned Martha Place, but in this book Martha is finally given a voice,
I give The Murderess Must Die, five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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