A review by pagesofpins
The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden & the Trial of the Century by Sarah Miller

4.0

Like most schoolchildren, I knew the infamous rhyme about Lizzie giving her parents forty whacks, but little else about the story. This engrossing history for teens has it all: lurid rumors, a mysterious poisoning the day before the murders, a rich family tight fisted with their fortune, sisters who stick together but sometimes clash in opinion, and in the center of it all, misfit spinster Lizzie Borden who is accused on little evidence other than her general lack of hysteria about the crime. The only thing that makes this read dissatisfying is the answers to all the questions it raises--lost to history.