{"product_id":"triflers-need-not-apply-camilla-bruce-9780241442319","title":"Triflers Need Not Apply","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1900, who would believe a woman capable of killing two husbands and forty other men? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1900 Chicago, a husband dies under the most suspicious of circumstances. Anton Sorenson had a $2,000 life-insurance policy set to expire and took out a new policy for $3,000. For just one day - July 30, 1900 - both policies were in effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSorenson dies of a cerebral hemorrhage on that very day. According to his wife, Belle Gunness, he had come home from work with a terrible headache. She said she gave him quinine powder, a common remedy, and went to prepare dinner. When she returned to check on him, she said, he was dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBelle remarries, this time to a much-younger man. Eight months later, Peter Gunness is also dead, the back of his skull smashed in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1906, a series of personal ads begin to appear in a local Midwest newspaper. Belle is looking for investors for her farm. None of the men who answer her ad are ever seen again . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a dazzlingly original and chilling reimagining of the life of Belle Gunness, the original black widow, Camilla Bruce opens the door to the mind of a female serial killer, where murderous scheming and the darkest of thoughts reside.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camilla Bruce","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43176786591987,"sku":"9780241442319","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9780241442319.jpg?v=1662089410","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/triflers-need-not-apply-camilla-bruce-9780241442319","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}