Pierce’s Pick: A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion by Ron Hansen

J. Kingston Pierce goes back to the classics for this week’s Pierce’s Pick of crime fiction.

Ron Hansen’s A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion gets the nod this time out. “This enthralling fictionalization of a real-life 1927 murder case features Ruth Synder, a perfidious wife who begins an affair with traveling corset salesman Judd Gray -- and then encourages him to kill her older husband,” writes Pierce. “Author James M. Cain drew from the same scandalous tale to write The Postman Always Rings Twice.”

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