Last Woman Hanged: The Terrible, True Story of Louise Collins by Caroline Overington

Last Woman Hanged: The Terrible, True Story of Louise Collins

Caroline Overington

410 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark emotional slow-paced
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Two husbands, four trials and one bloody execution: Winner of the 2015 Davitt Award for Best Crime Book (Non-fiction) -- the terrible true story of Louisa Collins. In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the f...

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