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Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

Gregg Olsen

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Jan 18, 2023 Colleen Chi-Girl rated it liked it

Shelves: us-no-amer, women-centered, audiobooks, bios-memoirs, crime-mysteries, non-fic, washington-state, netgalley, 2023

3-1/2 stars
Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski (fabulous job narrating this)
Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins

I'd like to thank NetGalley, the author, Gregg Olsen, and the audio publisher, for this ARC.

This true-crime audio was compelling and very upsetting. It was about a woman who went by the name of "Dr." Linda Hazzard who pretended to be a doctor or osteopath in the early 1900's in Washington state. She duped so many people, women and men, into paying her money to starve themselves in order to heal their ...more

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Dec 23, 2011 Andy Plonka rated it really liked it

True crime is often stranger than fiction as in this one which took place in the Pacific Northwestat the end of the nineteenth century. Two young wealthy British sisters who were paranoid about their health get taken in by a woman who promises to cure their ailments by starvation.

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