Fighting the Devil: A True Story of Consuming Passion, Deadly Poison, and Murder - Hardcover

Walker, Jeannie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 145021455X ISBN 13: 9781450214551

Publisher: Iuniverse Inc, 2010

Synopsis

This true crime saga of death, abuse, embezzlement, poison, and premonitions may seem like the stuff of soap operas. However, this true and chilling thriller of a horrific, slow, painful murder and haunting occurrences actually happened.  
Read this nail-biter with the lights blazing!
 
Millionaire rancher discovers his wife and bookkeeper have stolen thousands of dollars from him. He demands the money back, but suddenly gets deathly ill and dies in the hospital from an unknown illness. The millionaire's ex-wife becomes a sleuth to help solve his murder. Two years later clues lead her to a bottle of arsenic in a storage locker. Can she now trace this poison back to the murderer? 

• Readers who enjoy suspense, strong female leads, and crime drama, like Law and Order, will cling to every word of "Fighting the Devil". 
• The inclusion of photos--exemplify the humanity of the characters in this drama.
• * Those with weak stomachs are warned that this book contains graphic descriptions of slow death by poison. 

About this title

From the Author:

I am proud to announce my true crime story, "Fighting the Devil" is a 2011 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST in the True Crime genre and 2010 BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER."Fighting the Devil" is a true crime story, depicted the way it actually happened with factual accounts, information and recollections.
The wicked and evil way my ex-husband was murdered prompted me to pen this true crime story. Strange, woeful occurrences of a dark supernatural being from the depths of hell shocked everyone in the search for justice.

From the Back Cover:

There was a time when the millionaire rancher, Jerry Sternadel, gave all the orders. No one dared to tell him times were a-changin'. When he discovered in May of 1990 that his wife, Lou Ann, and his bookkeeper, Debbie Baker, had stolen thousands of dollars from him, he demanded the money back by Memorial Day, threatening to have them arrested for embezzlement if they did not. He also told his wife he was going to divorce her.
A week before Memorial Day, Jerry ate lunch with Lou Ann and Debbie as he often did. Soon after consuming his taco salad, he became violently ill, with nausea, vomiting, and severe diarrhea. He was admitted to the hospital on three different occasions between May 23 and June 12.
Doctors were mystified as to what was causing this otherwise healthy forty-nine-year-old man to become so deathly ill. Jerry did not smoke or drink and he exercised daily. During his final stay in the hospital, toxicology tests showed 4,895 mcg of arsenic in his system. Even while he was a patient in the hospital, the arsenic levels had continued to climb!
Jerry told nurses and anyone within earshot that his wife and bookkeeper were killing him.          
   excerpt from "Fighting the Devil"

About this edition

• Publisher: Iuniverse Inc
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 145021455X
• ISBN 13: 9781450214551
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336