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    Disturbed Ground

    By Carla Norton

    3.5/5

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    About this ebook

    The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller PERFECT VICTIM returns with another true-crime thriller. Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house on F street in Sacramento, taking in the city's homeless. But when corpses were dug up in her garden, it became clear the "kind-hearted" landlady was, in fact, a psychotic killer.

    "Brilliant... A classic!" --Ann Rule

    “Stunning... Disturbed Ground reads as smoothly as the most seamless blockbuster novel … Bravo!” --Jeffrey Deaver
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLiza Dawson Associates
    Release dateJul 8, 2013
    ISBN9781939481375
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    Disturbed Ground
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    Carla Norton

    Carla Norton is the author of the Number One New York Times non-fiction bestseller, Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box and the true crime book Disturbed Ground. She was awarded a Royal Palm Literary Award for best unpublished mystery for The Edge of Nomal. She served as the special sections editor for the San Jose Mercury News and has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, including The Los Angeles Times andThe San Francisco Chronicle. She has an MFA from Goddard College and has twice served as a judge for the Edgar Awards. The Edge of Normal is her debut novel. Carla Norton lives in Florida.

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    • 3/5
      Netherlands on Sunday, April 22, 2007 I wrote:

      Reading this book since a few days. nearly finished. Carla Norton is a very good writer.
      I loved her other book Perfect Victim.
      This book like that is written very well.
      I must admit I became a bit bored because so much of the book was about the trial. The first part of the book is great though! Nearly finished reading the book. Just a few chapters to go.

      eta finished it a few hours later. It was oke.

    • 3/5
      I picked this up on a whim walking through the library…I think I’m genetically disposed to be attracted to any book with the world diabolical in the title…this was an interesting case…I am, as always fascinated by people who are, for whatever reason, compelled to kill. The subject here was fascinating to me because I don’t remember this case at all and it leaves me wondering what the heck I was doing at the time that I’d never heard of Dorthea Puente at all…but then I realized that for much of the time this case was on trial, I was living in National Parks and not really having access to a TV. While reading the book, it is painfully obvious that the person writing it was once a former writer for the Los Angeles Times as the entire thing read like a really, really, really long newspaper article…but still, it’s packed with details of Dorthea’s life, the victims, and the trial from start to finish…so one doesn’t want for left out details. Overall a good read, but not quick…it took me three days to get through it all because it was fact dense and not as fluid as I might have liked.