ASIN: B007GT1LBU
Publisher: McKay Lewis Publishers
Pages: 366
4 1/2 star Romantic Times Review Rating"Robertson delivers a suspenseful tale of murder, sex, and deception."See the entire review at http://www.rtbookreviews.com/book-review/frail-blood Book Description:"Frail Blood" is an historical romantic thriller, completely fictionalized from a true court case.California, 1909. A woman straps a pistol to her ankle, walks to her lover’s home, and shoots him. Her motive? After an affair of four months, he jilted her for another woman. How would an attorney defend the woman in light of her outright confession? Would an all-male jury view her actions with repulsion or pity? The climate of California in the early twentieth century when women couldn’t vote and men held the real power, where immense wealth rested alongside poverty, held a paradox of contradictions. The bare bones of this event sparked the idea for the fictional story of Alma Bentley ...
