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Her name is Bernadette O'Brien. Born into a working-class Irish Catholic family, she is the misfit and girl-genius who defied expectations by entering the halls of academic privilege at age twelve and became a respected professor of physics at Harvard. Devastated by a most scrumptious occasion of sin, she committed a series of extraordinary crimes, including the sexual murder of two male students. Sentenced to death by lethal injection, she uses her journal to reflect on the events that led to her trial and confinement to confess.
First publish date: 1998
Genre: Thriller/Psychological Thriller
Authors: Carole Maso
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