My Husband's Trying to Kill Me!

From an award-winning journalist, this grippingly suspenseful true-crime tale details the foiling of a wealthy Texans plot to have his wife murdered (Publishers Weekly). To the world, Linda DeSilvas marriage to Robert Edelman was perfect. He was her college boyfriend turned wealthy and successful husband, and the father of her children. But what friends and family didnt know was that the Texas real estate tycoon who set her up with a luxurious life in Dallas was also her abuser. When she asked him for a divorce, the violence against her only escalated, until the shocking moment she learned her husband had hired an assassin to take her life. From acclaimed journalist and author Jim Schutze, My Husbands Trying to Kill Me! is the riveting true-crime account of how Linda DeSilva worked with the FBI to trap her husband before he could act on his murderous intentionsand how the sting operation nearly got her killed instead. A shocking and sensational story of a wife and mothers escape from the marriage that went from American dream to every womans worst nightmare. Numbing. Kirkus Reviews