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Accident, Suicide . . . or Murder?
On November 6, 2000, paramedics answered a call to find Kristin Rossum sobbing. Her husband, Greg de Villers, wasn't breathing, and she claimed he had overdosed on drugs after learning that she was leaving him. But family and friends weren't buying Kristin's story—particularly the idea that Greg would take his own life.
American Beauty
The daughter of a well-to-do California family, Rossum was a brainy blonde beauty whose talent for toxicology had won her a post at the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office. But her sweet smile masked a dark side . . .
Toxic Passion
At the time of her husband's death, Rossum was engaged in an illicit affair with her married boss. Investigators found that the Medical Examiner's Office was missing supplies of meth and fentanyl, the narcotic that had killed her husband. With each clue discovered, another piece of Rossum's "good girl" facade fell away. What the world would eventually see was the true face of a murderer—and the hand of justice.
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"Tonya Eby's voice made this book hard to finish. She narrates with very little emotion and that made this book very difficult to listen to. This is a true crime book - which I really enjoy - but, there is way too much detail in this book. I feel like the author goes off on rabbit trails on many occasions. This book was just average. "
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Julie (5 out of 5 stars)
About Caitlin Rother
Caitlin Rother,
a daily newspaper reporter for almost twenty years, has written for Cosmopolitan, the Los
Angeles Times, the Daily News of
Los Angeles, the Chicago
Tribune, the Boston
Globe, and the San
Diego Union-Tribune. A Pulitzer Prize nominee, she now writes books full-time.
Rother is the author of Poisoned
Love, the authoritative account of the Kristin Rossum murder
case, and the novel Naked
Addiction. She has won three awards in the Best of the West contest,
which judges stories from major metropolitan newspapers in the thirteen western
states. She also won five awards for a narrative that tracked the progress of
all five recipients from a twelve-year-old organ donor, including a Best
Feature award from the Associated Press News Executives Council, and a Best
News-Feature award from the Los Angeles Press Club. Rother lives in San Diego.