Women who kill have vastly different motives from men’s. They are rarer than their male counterparts. At a global level, 95% of people who commit murder are men.
Farber unpacks the lives, minds and motivations of some of South Africa’s most notorious murderers, from the poisonous nurse Daisy de Melker and the privileged but deeply disturbed Najwa Petersen to the mysterious Joey Haarhoff, who died before revealing the fate of her victims. Haarhoff might have died in 1990 before being held accountable for her role in the abduction and murder of girls in the 1980s, but today she is still being talked about because the families of her victims didn’t get closure when her partner and accomplice Gert van Rooyen decided to blow their brains out.
And then there’s the very angry and jealous Dina Rodrigues. Many thought that she wouldn’t harm a fly, but she organised a hit on the baby of her boyfriend.Despite the brutality and shock factor of the book, Blood on Her Hands is written in a style lighter than the subject matter suggests and makes it impossible for you to put the book down.
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