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The spider and the fly : a reporter, a serial killer, and the meaning of murder
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Dey Street, [2017]
Physical Description
276 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
Local police discovered the bodies of eight women stashed in the attic and basement of the small colonial home that Kendall Francois, a painfully polite twenty-seven-year-old community college student, shared with his parents and sister. Author Claudia Rowe had always been secretly fascinated by the darkness, and soon became obsessed with the story and with Francois. She was consumed with the desire to understand just how a man could abduct and strangle eight women--and how a family could live for two years, seemingly unaware, in a house with the victims' rotting corpses. She also hoped to uncover what humanity, if any, a murderer could maintain in the wake of such monstrous evil. Reaching out after Francois was arrested, Rowe and the serial killer began a dizzying four-year conversation about cruelty, compassion, and control; an unusual and provocative relationship that would eventually lead her to the abyss, forcing her to clearly see herself and her own past--and why she was drawn to danger.
Contents
- The weight of paper
- 99 Fulton avenue
- When night falls
- Tricks of the trade
- The final insult
- Strange town
- As if we were friends
- Close to home
- Evidence of things not seen
- Man and monster
- Solitaire
- U-turns
- Ghost story
- A day in the life
- One of our own
- The face in the mirror
- Discharged
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Author's note.