Lethal Ladies - George Mair

They were women obsessed by an all-consuming need for love. Housewives, professisonals, mothers and daughters, they'd do anything and sacrifice everything for the forbidden passion they craved.

Even commit murder. What drove these otherwise respectable, law-abiding women to such hideous acts of violence? Women like Carolyn Warmus, a quiet Westchester schoolteacher, whose "fatal attraction" for Paul Solomon forced her to brutally slay his wife Betty Jeanne.

Or Betty Broderick, betrayed and discarded by her husband for a younger woman, who killed them both in a blind frenzy of blood and fury.