Disturbed ground : the true story of a diabolical female serial killer

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller PERFECT VICTIM returns with another true-crime thriller. Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house on F street in Sacramento, taking in the city's homeless. But when corpses were dug up in her garden, it became clear the'kind-hearted'landlady was, in fact, a psychotic killer.'Brilliant... A classic!'--Ann Rule“Stunning... Disturbed Ground reads as smoothly as the most seamless blockbuster novel ... Bravo!” --Jeffrey Deaver Recounts the story of Dorothea Puente, a grandmotherly Sacramento woman who gained a reputation as a Good Samaritan by running a boarding house for the indigent and infirm, only to be convicted of murdering them.