"Lizzie Borden took an axe,
Gave her mother forty whacks,
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one."
On the morning of August 4, 1892, Abby and Andrew Borden were brutally murdered in their home just a few steps from passersby on busy Second Street. No trace of the killer or killers was found.
There were suspects, though.
The daughters, Emma and Lizzie Borden, were suddenly wealthy women. Lizzie and the Borden family maid, Bridget, had both been home at the time of the murders but swore they saw nothing. Uncle John had stayed, unexpectedly, in the Borden guest room the night before the murders, though he'd brought no luggage.
Lizzie quickly became the focus of attention and then the main suspect.
But did she kill?
Exhaustively researched, Killing the Bordens tells the true crime Borden murder mystery and the life of Lizzie Borden as a novel, and reveals who committed the murders, how, and why.
Genres for Killing the Bordens: True crime, history, biography, mystery, legal/crime/courtroom, historical fiction
“Cree is a skilled storyteller, and readers will be spellbound as the tale races to sleuth the answers to this violent, devastating crime…Takeaway: Masterfully crafted tale of one of history’s greatest unsolved crimes.” - BookLife Reviews, Editor's Pick
Read the full review here: https://booklife.com/project/killing-the-bordens-94360.
Read the first chapter of Killing the Bordens and see the Borden house floorplans
Borden house and barn on Second Street. Attribution: 1892 image, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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