A Woman Scorned

by Lisa Pulitzer, C. Spicer (Editor)

Rich, beautiful, deadly...

Billionairess Susan Cummings was very rich, even by the exalted standards of Virginia horse country. Shy and single, she used just two rooms of her huge mansion and slept with a .357 Magnum under her pillow. Some people called her haughty. Others said she was strangely obsessive, eccentric, and emotionless, with a strong distrust of people.

Her lover, Roberto, an Argentinean polo player with an eye for wealthy women, was undoubtedly handsome and possessive...and he was also cheating on her. But police, answering a mysterious 911 call, saw him only as a bullet-riddled corpse. Telling of escalating abuse, Susan displayed the blood running freely from knife wounds on her arm, and said she shot him in self-defense. Yet police had their doubts: claiming that Roberto had been dead so long, the pool of his blood looked like sticky red Jell-O...

Now, in a harrowing true tale of secrets, obsession and betrayal, top crime writer Lisa Pulitzer reveals the uncensored truth about a privileged world where ordinary rules don't apply...where a shocking crime rattled the sprawling playground of the wealthy elite...and where money can buy almost everything...

With eight pages of startling photos!

Genres: True Crime, Nonfiction

238 pages, Paperback

First published February 3, 1999

About the author

LISA PULITZER is a former correspondent for the New York Times. She is the author of more than a dozen non-fiction titles, including New York Times bestseller Stolen Innocence (with Elissa Wall) and Portrait of a Monster: Joran van der Sloot, A Murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway Mystery (with Cole Thompson.)

Reviews

[Diane in Australia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was just 'okay', nothing memorable. It was a quick, easy read. I felt the writing didn't really engage the reader as I hoped it would. She does state at the beginning of the book that she based it on court files, and interviews, so, perhaps, she had lackluster material to work with.

It's really a 2.5 Stars book to me, but I bumped it up to 3 Stars because even if it was lackluster, I learned a few things about the case.

3 Stars = Okay. It was worth reading.

[Jane · Rating 1 out of 5]

The author, Lisa Pulitzer is the worst author I have ever encountered. This book is at least 70% fluff. My gawd, I had no idea there were so many adverbs & adjectives to be used!
The plot would have provided a good author with excellent material. But this felt like Pulitzer got an outline, then added adverbs to "make it hers". Didn't work.

[Irene · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting read. Not enough about the "heiress" is explained, but perhaps that's because of who she is. The verdict was correct, in my opinion, but the sentence was simply outrageous! 60 days in jail for a murder and a piddling fine that was chump change for a woman of her means? Guess the rich are "different" than us ordinary folk.

[Maggie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book dragged on. I was attracted to the book more for a glimpse of the world of polo.