Duplicity by Donna Freed - 9781739879433

Name: Duplicity by Donna Freed - 9781739879433
Brand: Muswell Press

Muswell Press

DuplicityMy Mothers' Secrets\nAuthor(s): Donna Freed\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Muswell Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Muswell Press\nISBN-13: 9781739879433, 978-1739879433\nSynopsis\nA powerful, poignant and pacey adoption memoir which reads like a thriller. When her adoptive mother died in 2009 Donna Freed set out to track down her birth mother. What she discovered was truly shocking - she was the daughter of a pair of infamous con artists, at the heart of one of the biggest true crime stories to grip the USA in the 1960s. Previously redacted records from the infamous *Louise Wise Services in New York revealed that Donnas mother (27, Jewish and single), her father (40, Catholic, married with 4 children), had hatched a plan to defraud an insurance company and run off to Spain to raise Donna. Further investigation revealed that in 1967, Donnas mother, Mira Lindenmaier, faked her own death in a drowning accident off City Island in the Bronx for the double indemnity insurance mon.