Marked for Death

By Brian J. Karem

Book Overview

A seasoned investigative reporter takes us behind the scenes of one of the most shocking cases in California history when a greedy and seductive wife brutally murders her devoted husband. Tavia Williams thought her new stepmother was sweet and charming. Tavia, just a few years younger than 36-year-old Elisa McNabney, was very happy for her father, 53-year-old Larry McNabney. Larry was a horse enthusiast, successful attorney, a pillar of the community, and was loved and admired by everyone he knew. For six years of marriage, Larry and Elisa spent their spare time on the country club and horse racing circuit. It was a perfect life, but it went perfectly wrong. On September 10, 2001, Larry attended a horse show. No one has seen him alive since. Months after his disappearance, police finally put out a missing persons report. They soon found out that Elisa McNabney was not the person she had claimed to be. A fugitive on the run, Elisa was a con woman who had enlisted the help of a girlfriend to slowly poison her loving husband with horse tranquilizers, in the name of pure greed. Larry was found buried in a vineyard, after Elisa kept his corpse in her deep freezer for months. The only thing more appalling than the horrific murder was the shocking manhunt that followed and the end to this tragic story of deception, murder, and deadly seduction.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0072B42ZE
• ISBN13: 9780060524715
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

This is how a true crime book should read!!

What a great book. The author really researched the chararcters of this book. If you are a true crime fan this is a must read. Great Great book I will buy more written by this author.

Interesting Case -- Unusual Writing Style

In one night I read this book cover to cover. The case itself was interesting with a nice insight provided by the author into the mind and planned actions of the two evil female killers. What really kept me reading was how the author let me know, from the beginning of the book, the eventual outcome of the trial and the circumstances surrounding the death of one of the offenders and the sentencing of the other. In most true crime books I have read the author drags you through the crime details, the manhunt for the killer(s), capture and then the ultimate criminal sentence. The writing style of this book is different and it sets it apart from many other formula true crime books. A very good read!

I was the deputy d.a. who prosecuted the case

So far I have read only the last two chapters. They deal with the case in court. I was pleasantly surprised to find the author,Mr. Karem , understood the nuances of the case so well that his writing was not 90%,not 99% , but 100% accurate. I'm amazed because even the attorneys on such complicated cases rarely exceed an understanding of about 80% Others who were involved in the case tell me the rest of the book faithfully recounts the actions of Eliza(hanged herself in jail) and Sarah.By the way,on 9/12/05 Sarah's appeal was denied.