![]() ![]() ![]() Eight years later, Mark is killed in a hit and run accident less than a block from their house.īlum shuts down after Mark’s death. Her parents’ murder-which Blum justifies by revealing her father’s torturous apprenticeship of Blum into the family business of embalming-leads Blum to her husband, Mark, who passed off on the deaths as a tragic accident. Over the course of the book, Blum becomes an accomplished serial killer. I think I only finished it because it was so short I got to the end before I expected it.īrünhilde Blum-she prefers to be called Blum-is introduced in a brief prologue in which she murders her adopted parents by allowing them to drown off the coast of Croatia. I’ve read some disturbing books in my time, but Woman of the Dead commits the crime of being disturbing and poorly written. I’ve been trying to scrub Woman of the Dead, by Bernhard Aichner, out of my head since I finished reading it earlier this evening. ![]()
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