Irresistible Impulse A True Story of Blood and Money

From the bestselling author of The Falcon and the Snowman comes a riveting story of money, madness, and murder as a fairy-tale romance turns into a frightening horror.

Swept off her feet by a handsome Englishman and his dazzling fortune, a modest and beautiful young woman from California quickly realizes that her storybook romance is actually an unstoppable horror.

Complete with eight pages of photographs, Robert Lindsey tells the chilling and horrific truth of how the innocent beauty in love became a bullet-ridden, headless corpse found in the English countryside and all of the lies and deceit her fairytale prince told to lead her there.

Robert Lindsey, who was born in 1935 in Glendale, California, was a reporter and correspondent for The New York Times for twenty years. His first book, The Falcon and the Snowman, won the Edgar Allan Poe award in 1980. His book A Gathering of Saints won the Gold Dagger Award of the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain in 1989. He is married and lives in Carmel, California.