Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.15230977178
EAN num: 9780671013790
ISBN number: 0671013793
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: March 01, 1998
Publishing house: Pocket
Sale Popularity Level: 639175
Studio: Pocket
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Cincinnati heart surgeoun Darryl Sutorious was spellbound, convinced he'd found the perfect wife. With bewitching hazel eyes and exquisite clothes, Cante Britteon seemed to have stepped straight out of Vogue and into his arms. But their honeymoon didn't last long. Beneath Dante's china-doll facade lured a sceretive, dangerous woman, a man-hater born as Della Faye Hall, whose four previous marriages had been spiced with butcher knives, pistols, vandalized house and lover set on fire, according to the men she ensnared. And by the time Darryl—haunted by his own impotence—summoned the strength to demand out of the marriage, Della Faye was only too happy to oblige: with a bullet to the brain.
In this stunning book, New York Times bestselling author Aprodite Jones traces the intricate web of this fiendishly calculating sexual con artist. From Della Faye Hall's strange childhood to her violent marriages, from the police investigation to the murder trial, this is the shocking story of a suburban femme fatale, a gold-digger driven by jealousy and greed to torture her husband to death.
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I was very disappointed in this book. The writing read very juvenile, as if a teenager wrote this book. Dare I say a teenager might have done a better job. The actual story was interesting although author seemed to portray all characters as highly unsophisticated and uncultured when I'm sure many of the actual characters were. It was very UNintelligently written and, all in all, a highly disappointing read. I was surprised to see the author was as accomplished as she was. After reading this book, I would have thought her a obscure author with little to no experience. This read worse than a debut from a new author. Just awful. I will hesitate to read anything else from Aphrodite Jones although, in fairness to her, it is possible this was just a "bad" project and all other works are fantastically written. It will take me awhile to determine if this is the case as I feel a bit "dumber" after reading this book.
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Terrific read, and researched in great detail - thank you Ms. Jones. The crime itself was horrific enough, but reading of her lifetime of terrorizing almost everyone she encountered is what is truly chilling.
While I'm sure some people are simply born damaged, it seems that Della is a classic case of a pathological attachment disorder - losing her most emotionally important caretaker (in her case her father) in the critical 1-3 year old period, and left with a mother who was quite harsh. These children are forever locked in that infantile state - emotional vampires unable to empathize or care about any other person, filled with narcissistic rage and eternally trying to fill that emotional hole. Her endless avarice and demands, continual and often pointless lying, creation of a false, grandiose self, infantile, needy behavior, and violent, self-righteous rage towards anyone who denied her anything she wanted are textbook behaviors.
If you find psychological insight in true crime books interesting, you will enjoy this book.
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Always remember what you read is not always the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!
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This book was fascinating, but it could have been better. For instance, if there was some sort of timeline that showed what Della/Dante was doing when, in her career of marrying up and up and in between marriages. How and where did she live? Pay rent? It's just amazing that she continued to get away with her behavior toward the men she dated and married, as well as her own family. I just feel as though a lot was left out, and the book could have been better researched and more tightly written. But overall, an entertaining true crime book.
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Ok this story was on court tv's forensic files and HER OWN MOTHER calls her a grey widow spider because she marries a sucessful man and kills him for money she is very greedy and she would have never been found out if bodies didnt tell secrets csi is a very important thing too no way would blood have spatterd on the bottom of the couch with a shooting to the head it was a very important thing to her undoing
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