House of Lies — Linda Rosencrance

Killer Debutante

Kelley Cannon was living the American Dream. The former prom queen had three beautiful children with her successful, handsome husband, Jim, and an elegant home in well-to-do Nashville. But when their housekeeper found Jim murdered, strangled to death as their children slept, the fairytale collapsed. Behind the facade, Kelley's glamorous lifestyle was being torn apart by infidelity, alcohol, and drug abuse. When she went from prime suspect to accused, a jury had to decide -- How could a 90-pound woman overpower a grown man to death? Their finding: premeditated murder, a life sentence -- and a storybook life that masked a dark, violent truth . . .