Betsy Roberts

BETSY ROBERTS is the extraordinary story, set in the pioneering period of late eighteenth and

early nineteenth century North America, of Betsy Roberts a young woman who is kidnapped by two notorious and villainous brothers, the Harpes, America's first known serial killers. She survives by becoming complicit in terrible crimes, but eventually escapes to become a powerful figure in New York social and business life. The story, Dickensian in scope, involves real characters and events and teems with amazing personalities, scenes and descriptions of the times.