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Playing with Fire: The True Story of a Nurse, Her Husband, and a Marriage Turned Fatal

John Glatt

A beautiful nurse. A lethal injection. A gruesomely charred corpse. Nothing could have shocked the sleepy community of Morgantown, West Virginia, more than the lurid details that surfaced after a house fire claimed the life of Shelly Michael's husband Jimmy. Local authorities suspected possible arson. Then they discovered that Jimmy had been dead before the fire even started-paralyzed by a fatal dose of muscle relaxant...

Did Shelly Michael, a respected nurse and mother, kill her second husband and torch her own home? Were the rumors true that she'd had an affair with her husband's employee only two weeks before the murder? Or did she kill Jimmy simply for the insurance money? Charged with first-degree murder and first-degree arson, Shelly would never stop claiming her innocence-even to this day

Book Details

  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
  • Publish Date: Mar 2nd, 2010
  • Pages: 384
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.00in - 0.87in - 0.93lb
  • EAN: 9781250093141
  • Categories: Murder - GeneralOrganized Crime

About the Author

Glatt, John: - English-born JOHN GLATT is the Edgar-award nominated author of more than thirty books including The Lost Girls and My Sweet Angel, and has over thirty years of experience as an investigative journalist in England and America. He has appeared on television and radio programs all over the world, including Dateline NBC, Fox News, ABC's 20/20, BBC World News, and A&E Biography.

Praise for this book

“John Glatt is one of the finest true crime craftsmen writing today.”—Howard Goldberg, VH1.com
"John Glatt is one of the finest true crime craftsmen writing today."--Howard Goldberg, VH1.com