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See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmidt

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See What I Have Done Sarah Schmidt Gore Level: Overall Rating:  ðŸŒŸ 🌟 🌟 🌟 About the Book: See What I Have Done is a fictionalised rewriting of the notorious Borden family murders in 1892. Sarah Schmidt's remarkable writing has the ability to reanimate this gruesome and intriguing event in the history of Fall River, Massachusetts. The murder of Andrew and Abby Borden, at the heart of the story, was a true crime in Fall River that saw the victim's daughter (*step-daughter to Abby) Lizzie Borden tried and acquitted for their deaths. Themes of sisterhood, corruption, violence, crime and jealousy interweave to form a troubling, yet compelling new look into the infamously gory Borden murders. We, as readers, observe the characters of Lizzie and Emma Borden, their uncle John, Bridget the maid and the unexpected partial witness, Benjamin, and their roles in the events that preceded and follow the macabre double murder to uncover the murder mystery that c...