Playing With Fire, John Glatt
Playing With Fire, John Glatt
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Playing With Fire
The True Story of a Nurse, Her Husband, and a Marriage Turned Fatal

Author: John Glatt

Narrator: Shaun Grindell

Unabridged: 10 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/10/2020


Synopsis

A beautiful nurse. A lethal injection. A gruesomely charred corpse.

Nothing could have shocked the sleepy community of Morgantown, West Virginia, more than the lurid details that surfaced after a house fire claimed the life of Shelly Michael's husband Jimmy. Local authorities suspected possible arson. Then they discovered that Jimmy had been dead before the fire even started—paralyzed by a fatal dose of muscle relaxant . . .

Did Shelly Michael, a respected nurse and mother, kill her second husband and torch her own home? Were the rumors true that she'd had an affair with her husband's employee only two weeks before the murder? Or did she kill Jimmy simply for the insurance money? Charged with first-degree murder and first-degree arson, Shelly would never stop claiming her innocence—even to this day

About John Glatt

English-born John Glatt is the author of more than twenty books, and has over thirty years of experience as an investigative journalist in England and America. He is the author of Lost and Found, Secrets in the Cellar, Playing with Fire, and many other bestselling books of true crime. He has appeared on television and radio programs all over the world, including Dateline NBC, Fox News, A Current Affair, BBC World News, and A&E Biography.


Reviews

It's unbelievable that this woman actually thought she wouldn't get convicted -- not after they found that drug in his system. That boogles the mind. "He was warm when I left him" was what she said when they asked if he was alive when she left for work that morning. Really. It was an interesting cas......more

Well I finished this a few days ago and it is a very powerful book. I thought it was well written. If I think of how that man suffered I get so angry that there are still people saying he must have committed suicide just to get back at her. Crazy. She lied about where she was and so justice is done......more

Interesting story, but I felt that there was a certain fiction aspect in the beginning. The story paints Michelle in a horrible light throughout the first part of the story; yet at the trial, none of that is presented. That makes me feel that the authors personal views and facts not in evidence were......more

This story just broke my heart because it's hard to believe someone would actually do this to their spouse, but Michelle Michael, committed the unthinkable--she murdered her husband. It was bad enough that she set fire to their home, but she drugged her husband, first, then set him on fire. The drug......more