Vera Caspary

Bedelia - Femmes Fatales Vera Caspary

Long before Desperate Housewives, there was Bedelia: pretty, ultra femme, and ?adoring as a kitten.? A perfect housekeeper and lover, she wants nothing more than to please her insecure new husband, who can?t believe his luck. But is Bedelia too good to be true? A mysterious new neighbor turns out to be a detective on the trail of a ?kitten with claws of steel??a picture-perfect wife with a string of dead husbands in her wake.

Caspary builds this tale to a peak of psychological suspense as her characters are trapped together by a blizzard. The true Bedelia, the woman who chose murder over a life on the street, reveals how she turns male fantasies of superiority into a deadly con.