Poisoned Love, Carlton Smith
Poisoned Love, Carlton Smith
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Poisoned Love
The True Story of ER Nurse Chaz Higgs, His Ambitious Wife, and a Shocking Murder

Author: Carlton Smith

Narrator: Joyce Bean

Unabridged: 9 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/30/2018

Synopsis

Kathy Augustine was a controversial two-term Nevada State Controller. In 2003, her husband Chuck died of an apparent stroke. Only a month later, she married Chaz Higgs, an ER nurse who, it was later revealed, had attended to her late husband just before his death. Three years later, fifty-year-old Kathy died after a heart attack—the result, her family and friends believed, of a stressful political campaign. But when an autopsy of Kathy's body revealed no signs of heart disease, investigators dug deeper into Kathy's case…only to find the presence of a powerful, paralyzing emergency-room drug in Kathy's system. A jury would later charge Nurse Chaz with murder in the first degree. But could Kathy's first husband also have been the victim of Chaz's treachery? And just how much did Kathy know? This is the shocking true story of a family torn apart by lies, medical crime, and POISONED LOVE.

About Carlton Smith

Carlton Smith (1947–2011) was a prizewinning crime reporter and the author of dozens of books. Born in Riverside, California, Smith graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, with a degree in history. He began his journalism career at the Los Angeles Times and arrived at the Seattle Times in 1983, where he and Tomas Guillen covered the Green River Killer case for more than a decade. They were named Pulitzer Prize finalists for investigative reporting in 1988 and published the New York Times bestseller The Search for the Green River Killer (1991) ten years before investigators arrested Gary Ridgway for the murders. Smith went on to write twenty-five true crime books, including Killing Season (1994), Cold-Blooded (2004), and Dying for Love (2011).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah

The true crime genre varies significantly from the mystery genre in that there generally is no mystery: you know who committed the crime. This book is different. Smith leads readers through the arguments made in the conviction of Chaz Higgs, but the more I read, the more I was convinced he wasn't wh......more

Goodreads review by Nadia

quick read, a lot of interesting information that wasn't in the forensic files episode. Doesn't sugar coat Kathy at all.......more

Goodreads review by Ginnie

The beginning of this novel was absolutely gripping. It read like a fast paced movie plot. As the victim you are supposed to feel bad for Kathy Augustine. But I couldn't believe that such a person could even be real and so hateful. It seemed that her and that piece of work Chaz Higgs deserved each o......more

Goodreads review by Roger

Very well written with facts A story of twist and turns but the author keeps the reader moving along in an interesting and informative manner. Perhaps too many details for some readers but personally I want "facts" so long as they are not presented in a convoluted and tedious way. Carlton Smith bring......more

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