Women Behaving Badly: True Tales of Cleveland's Most Ferocious Female Killers: An Anthology
From the Kaber case, which finds a grandmother, mother and granddaughter indicted for the same first-degree murder, to the ‘Bad Cinderella’ who poisons her abusive stepsister, Bellamy once again masterfully brings to life decades-old tales that won’t let you look away. (Jim VickersCleveland Magazine20051105)A collection of true crime tales that can quickly disabuse anyone of the notion that women are really the ‘gentler’ sex. Any one of these would easily qualify for the supermarket tabloids. But they were taken from 150 years of murder and mysterious death cases pivoting around women in the greater Cleveland area. (Laura KennellyMorning Journal20051218)Nothing is open and shut in ‘Women Behaving Badly’. The latest look-back by true-crime maestro John Stark Bellamy recounts the life and crimes of Cleveland’s most gruesome killers . . . But more than that, it revisits sexual roles in transition, where change comes with a revolver, a knife, or cup of poison-and female intuition gone berserk. (John PetkovicThe Plain Dealer20051025)Fascinating, even in the preface . . . Great fun, in a gruesome sort of way . . . Straightforward and easy to read, and each case is short enough that when you finish one, you want to start on the next. (Mary RuehrRecord Courier20051230)