by Teri Brown | Jan 30, 2026 | Uncategorized
Mary Ann Cotton, an English woman who lived during the Mid 1800’s in County Durham, had a habit of marrying men and then collecting the insurance policy when they died. Which they invariably did. At 20, Mary Ann married her first husband, collier laborer, William...
by Teri Brown | Jan 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
This is perhaps the most interesting—and juiciest—entry in my murderous women series. Florence MayBrick was an eighteen-year-old American girl who married an Englishman, James Maybrick, many years her senior. At first, the couple seemed happy, despite their...
by Teri Brown | Jan 16, 2026 | Lizzie Borden
Welcome to part two of my weird, creepy series called Five Women Who Should be as Notorious as Lizzie Borden. This one is a doozy and I’m shocked that I had never heard of Belle Gunness, a woman arguably considered one of the most prolific female serial killers...
by Teri Brown | Jan 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
Welcome to the start of a new blog series that was so much fun to research and write. And by fun, I mean I discovered things that totally creeped me out and kept me up at night. See, fun! And don’t get me wrong, As much as I love scary books, I do NOT like scary...
by Teri Brown | Jan 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
It was hard for me to make out this list of my favorite books of 2025. Not because I read so many but because this is the sum total of all the fiction I managed to read last year. I did read about five or six non fiction books, but as a life long reader, this list is...
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