This book reminds me a lot about Agatha Christie's Pale Horse. In both books we have two parties offering murder for a price. Yet it was not mafia style execution. It was murder made to look like some form of natural but tragic illness.
I know both stories are just fiction. Yet I can't help but analyse Thora, the fictitious character in True Evil. She was the daughter of a medical doctor but she grew up with an alcoholic mother. While she won a scholarship to medical school, she dropped out because of an unwanted pregnancy. Her grand ma took pity on her and helped her through a nursing course. She nursed a rich oil man so well that he married her. He died of an illness naturally but she actually paid for his death before his disease showed. It is interesting that she married a medical man after her brief widowhood. Even though this second husband actually loved her and bonded with her son, she was out to kill him again to be free to mess with a married man, her husband's colleague in the hospital.
Is she by nature a play girl? Or was she following her father's foot steps in life? Is she trying to exact revenge from a fellow doctor, because she could not hurt her faithless father? We are talking about an independently rich woman who is healthy, beautiful and desirable to most men. She lacks nothing important in life except a good character. In this story, she was clobbered to death by her lawyer who panic at her threats.
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