title: Blood Will Tell: A Shocking True Story of Marriage, Murder, and Fatal Family Secrets (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
author:  Carlton Smith 
description: <div>Carlton Smith was an award-winning journalist for<i> The Los Angeles Times </i>and <i>The Seattle Times</i> in the 1970s and 1980s. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting in 1988, he now works full-time as a true crime author. He lives in San Francisco.<br></div>
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