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Book Review of Bitter Blood : A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder

Bitter Blood : A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder
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The dying began on a Sunday. A feisty millionare widow and her beautiful daughter are murdered gangland style in their big house in Louisville, Kentucky. Months later another wealthy widow and her prominent son and daughter-in-law are also slain one night in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The mystified police first suspect a professional killer, then turn their focus on family.
The Sharps. The Newsoms. The Lynches. Three well-to-do families, all linked by an aristocratic young mother, Susie Sharp Newsom Lynch. Could this former child princess and one time fraternity sweetheart, the daughter, granddaughter, ex-sister and ex-daughter-in-law, be involved in these murders? And what about her close and obsessive first cousin, Fritz Klenner, who dreams of succeeding his nationally known successful doctor father?
In this tightly wound and unrelenting tale, events build to a horrifyingly dramatic and shattering conclusion that leaves the remaining family members and the citizens of two states devastated.