Thou Savage Woman: The gripping new true crime history book of female killers in early modern Britain

A Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 'Popular history at its best' Spectator 'Boisterous… replete with stabbings, bashing and thumping' Daily Mail 'A cocktail of brutal, tragic, and fascinating true crime from the era of the Tudors and Stuarts.This dark history at its best, narrated with empathy and precision' Gareth Russell LADY KILLERS AND FEMME FATALES - STORIES OF MURDER MOST FOUL - HAVE GRIPPED PUBLIC IMAGINATION FOR CENTURIES Early Modern Britain was awash with pamphlets, ballads, woodcuts broadcasting bloodthirsty tales of traitorous wives, greedy mistresses, cunning female poisoning lacing the supper with deadly substances; of child killers and spiteful witches, stories of women wholly and unnaturally wicked.These were printed or sung, tacked the walls of alehouses, sold in the streets for pennies and read voraciously to thrill all.But why? When the vast majority of murders then (and now) are committed by men. In this bold, page-turning new history, forme