Following the success of her first book, NOTORIOUS AUSTRALIAN WOMEN, historian Kay Saunders turns to the women who have killed in Australia - their motivations, their lives, their psychology. She tackles the various types of killers from women who performed early abortions and infanticides - often as a way to help other women - to those who killed in cold blood, women who committed matricide or patricide, who killed their children or their husbands. Do women kill? Yes they do, but often for very different reasons from men.