Used book – The Scold's Bridle, Minette Walters, Philippe Bonnet

"Where did Olive Martin's fascination come from? From the grotesque spectacle of her five feet, one inch and two hundred and sixty pounds? From her sinister notoriety? From the repulsion she inspired? She had butchered her mother and sister into pieces, which she had arranged on the kitchen floor in a bloody, abstract composition. The enormity of the crime, combined with the terrifying impression her apocalyptic figure had made on the court members, had earned her a life sentence. Crime aside, what made her case exceptional was that she had pleaded guilty and even refused to defend herself." From her first encounter with Olive Martin, Rosalind Leigh, who reluctantly agreed to write a book about her, felt that the obese killer was not guilty. But then why the confession? Who was she protecting? And why?