There are those really well-written fictional stories and then there are those bits of detail that you happen to catch on the evening news that make your toes just curl in disbelief. The old adage that real life is stranger than fiction certainly applies here considering that there was absolutely NO motive for this murder to occur. There was no other woman, there was no issue of money, nor was he beating her or being cruel to her child; and yet she poisoned him slowly. I just do not understand why you would want to kill someone who is trying to find treatments for childhood AIDS.

In the small town of Raleigh, North Carolina on the 2nd of December 2000, a young AIDS researcher died of an unknown illness. Eric Miller had been sick for weeks with the ‘flu’ and in and out of hospitals and doctors’ offices to which none would gather that the man was suffering from arsenic poisoning. After a toxicity screen is done with the rest of the autopsy, it is found to be positive for that deadly compound and of course any idiot can put two and two together. He and his wife worked in a laboratory…that had arsenic in it…it was missing…in her department.

Mousy, calm and demure this black widow of a woman claimed to be even as she finally was placed into handcuffs several years after her husband’s murder. The look of disbelief graced her features as if SHE was still the victim in the situation. Her psychological luring of men and her torture of her husband one bit at a time, one organ shutting down at a time…is told in the eyes of the head investigator Chris Morgan written by Amanda Lamb. The cry of judgment is shrieked throughout the book and it is not until the final pages that satisfaction can be tasted, a juicy morsel on the pallet of police justice.

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Publisher: Berkley (June 3, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0425221962
ISBN-13: 978-0425221969