The Murderer's Bride

The charlatan Alicks Sly murdered his wife, Ellie, and killed himself with a cut-throat razor in a house in Sydneys Newtown in early 1904, leaving their children to a wretched fate. He wasnt the only man to murder his wife - or try - that year. Life in the big city could be harsh and brutal, and so could marriage.

Sociologist Tanya Bretherton traces the brutal story of Ellie, one of several murderers brides in turn-of-the-century Sydney; of her husband, Alicks, and his family; and their three orphaned sons, adrift in the world.

From the author of the acclaimed THE SUITCASE BABY - shortlisted for the 2018 Ned Kelly Award, Danger Prize and Waverley Library Nib Award - comes another riveting true-crime case from Australias dark past. THE MURDERERS BRIDE is a masterful exploration of criminality, insanity, violence and bloody family ties in bleak, post-Victorian Sydney.

**Includes an extract from THE SUITCASE BABY and an extract from Tanya Brethertons latest fascinating true-crime story, THE KILLING STREETS**