The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder

by Claudia Rowe

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"...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...[the author] 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..."--page ii.
  • ISBN10 006241612X
  • ISBN13 9780062416124
  • Publish Date 24 January 2017
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Imprint Dey Street Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Language English