Paperback: Nancy Kissel had it all: glamour, beauty and the royal lifestyle of the expatriate wife.
She had three children and what a friend described as 'the best marriage in the universe' to Robert Kissel, a successful investment banker.
But that marriage ended abruptly one November night in 2003 when Nancy was alleged to have incapacitated Robert by serving him a strawberry milkshake full of sedatives before bludgeoning him to death. This case, since then, was known as the 'milkshake murder'.
Prosecutors, who charged Nancy with murder, said she wanted to inherit Robert's millions and start a new life with her lover, Michael Del Priore.
She said she had killed in self-defence while fighting for her life against a brutal, cocaine-addicted husband.
Her trial captured attention worldwide, and less than a year after the verdict in 2006, Robert's brother Andrew, a real estate tycoon facing prison for fraud and embezzlement was also found dead - tied up and stabbed in the basement of his home.
Never Enough (2007) is the true story of two brothers who wanted to own the world but instead wound up murdered half a world apart; and of Nancy Kissel, for whom having it all might not have been enough. Basically, it is a sad but true story of avarice, hate and murder.
About the author: Joe McGinniss is an American author of non-fiction novels and true crime. He gained familiarity with journalism for the first time at the College of Holy Cross where he wrote for the school newspaper as well as the Chester Port Daily Item in the summer breaks. After his graduation, he worked for Worcester Telegram as a general assignment reporter. After a year, he became a sportswriter at the Philadelphia Bulletin and a year later, started working for its rival, Philadelphia Inquirer, as a columnist.
In 1986, McGinniss found the opportunity to write his first novel, The Selling of the President, which received a huge amount of positive feedback, such that it was in New York Times bestseller list overnight. Following his huge success with The Selling of the President, he decided to concentrate on writing books and subsequently quit his job at the Philadelphia Inquirer. His second and third books did not make waves compared to his first book. In 1980, however, he regained his popularity with his fourth book, Going To Extremes, where he wrote about his adventures in Alaska.
In 1979, McGinniss became recognized nationwide after he met with Jeffrey MacDonald, a former doctor in the US army who was accused of killing his wife and children in 1970. He worked on MacDonald's case for more than three years and published his first true crime book entitled Fatal Vision in 1983.
According to his biography, whether McGinniss is writing about a politician or a sociopath or even a soccer team, he feels compelled to search for the truth, no matter how elusive, behind the people and events he chronicles. His approach to his subject matters is always original and his books are never less than compulsively readable.
More information of the author and his works can be found on his website.
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